{
  "id": "range.spatial",
  "term": "range",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "range.spatial",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the space between two boundaries",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "boundary.limit"
    ],
    "interaction": "space.extent and boundary.limit together define a space that is limited on each side",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bounded extent",
      "interval space"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The flight range of the Wright Flyer was 120 feet, bounded by Kill Devil Hill's slope and the first impact point.",
      "domain": "aviation"
    },
    {
      "text": "The audible range of a human ear spans from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz under standard testing conditions.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The operational range of the Tesla Model S on a single charge reaches 405 miles, measured from full battery to empty.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "boundary.limit",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ambush.attack",
    "authenticity.state",
    "bottleneck.constraint",
    "certainty.epistemic",
    "depth.level",
    "doubt.epistemic",
    "expectation.predicted",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "frozen.state",
    "healthy.condition",
    "inertia.resistance",
    "integrity.state",
    "keystone.system",
    "known-unknown.model",
    "narrow.spatial",
    "no-free-openings.no-openings",
    "repair.restore",
    "rest.recovery",
    "safety.security",
    "slack.margin",
    "strain.measurable-degradation",
    "surprise.reaction",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion",
    "tough.resilient",
    "trust.reliance",
    "verge.edge",
    "wealth.range",
    "window.range"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "range",
    "ranged",
    "ranges",
    "ranging"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-range.spatial"
}