{
  "id": "recovery.interval",
  "term": "recovery",
  "sense": "interval",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "ontological",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "The interval during which a thing returns to being within its window after crossing a wall.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "parameter.condition",
      "cross.symbol",
      "return.movement",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "These components jointly model a parameter moving beyond a boundary, symbolized by crossing, then returning over time to a sustainable range through a structural opening in the boundary.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal reintegration",
      "post-boundary transition",
      "recovery trajectory"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "After the 2003 Northeast blackout, the power grid restored voltage levels within 15 minutes across Ontario and eight U.S. states.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neuron's membrane potential returns to −70 mV within 2 milliseconds after an action potential crosses the threshold.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin rebounded to $40,000 two weeks after dropping below $35,000 during the May 2021 market crash.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "recovery"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'windows.opening' as constitutive per omitted concept; all components now support the definition's account of recovery as return through an opening after crossing a boundary."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-recovery.interval"
}