{
  "id": "protection.security",
  "term": "protection",
  "sense": "security",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "protection",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state where a boundary or cover maintains a thing against loss",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "boundary.limit",
      "cover.object",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "loss.economic",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "boundary and cover together maintain a thing against loss through persistence in a protected state",
    "novel_properties": [
      "preservation against external threat",
      "integrated defensive posture",
      "persistent integrity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Cybersecurity Executive Order mandated MFA on federal civilian networks to resist intrusion.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A sea wall in the Maldives stands 3 meters high, shielding homes from 10-cm annual sea-level rise.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Antibodies in human blood neutralize pathogens before they breach cell membranes.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "safety.security",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "risk.uncertainty",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "protect",
    "protected",
    "protecting",
    "protection",
    "protections",
    "protects"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Definition tightened to remove redundancy and properly reflect constituent concepts. Added missing constitutive components that the original definition implicitly relied upon."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-protection.security"
}