{
  "id": "quick.speed",
  "term": "quick",
  "sense": "speed",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "adjective",
  "domain": "",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "being fast in time and short",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "fast.speed",
      "short.length",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "fast speed together with short length makes change happen in less time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reduced duration",
      "efficient change",
      "compressed event"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake ruptured 250 kilometers of fault in under 150 seconds.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A cheetah accelerates from 0 to 96 km/h in 3 seconds, the fastest burst of any land animal.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Google Search returns results in 0.2 seconds on average, even during peak traffic.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "fast.speed",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "quick",
    "quicker",
    "quickest",
    "quickly"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "time.dimension was missing in declared components but is required by the current definition; added to preserve original meaning."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quick.speed"
}