{
  "id": "real.actual",
  "term": "real",
  "sense": "actual",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "real",
  "domain": "thing",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is in space and persists through time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "persist.continue",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter is placed in space and its state continues through time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatiotemporal presence",
      "enduring identity",
      "actual existence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, maintained in low Earth orbit since 1998.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest has existed in the Himalayas for at least 60 million years, persisting through measurable tectonic shifts.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has governed the federal system since 1789, surviving amendments and judicial interpretations.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "actually.real",
    "certain.confidence",
    "fact.truth",
    "ivory-tower.detachment",
    "on-the-ground.local",
    "really.intensifier",
    "true.accurate"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "real"
  ],
  "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": "Added missing foundational concepts space.extent and time.dimension to components, as they are constitutive of the definition and were unjustifiably omitted in the record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real.actual"
}