{
  "id": "regional.spatial",
  "term": "regional",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "regional",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "of a region in a local area",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "region.spatial",
      "local.spatial",
      "area.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "the region and the local area together form a bounded part of space that is locally situated",
    "novel_properties": [
      "locally bounded extent",
      "situated region"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mekong River Commission coordinates water use among Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam to manage seasonal monsoon flows.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Farmers in Iowa's Cedar Rapids region adjust planting schedules yearly based on localized floodplain data from the National Weather Service.",
      "domain": "agriculture"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake triggered regional GPS network adjustments across Japan's tectonic plate boundary zones.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "region.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "local.spatial",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "regional"
  ],
  "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 'area.spatial' to components since the definition implicitly relies on the concept of an enclosed extent. The interaction and novel properties reflect the emergent spatial coherence of region an"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-regional.spatial"
}