{
  "id": "registration.administrative",
  "term": "registration",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "registration",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the action of adding a name to a register",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "register.record",
      "add.operation",
      "name.identifier",
      "action.deed"
    ],
    "interaction": "the action of adding combines a name with a register, resulting in the name being recorded",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recorded membership",
      "formal inclusion",
      "authorized identification"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1970 US Census recorded every resident's name in the National Register of Archives.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Debian GNU/Linux added package 'curl' to its official repository on 2002-03-18.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "A newborn's name was entered into the UK's General Register of Births on April 5, 1999.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "entry.place",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "registration",
    "registrations"
  ],
  "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 'action.deed' to align the emergence record with the definition, which presupposes an action. Definition remains unchanged as it correctly describes the concept."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-registration.administrative"
}