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  "id": "regular.frequency",
  "term": "regular",
  "sense": "frequency",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "regular",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is the same pattern again over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the pattern is again in time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "uniform intervals",
      "predictable recurrence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The orbit of Halley's Comet repeats every 76 years with predictable precision.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The daily opening of the London Stock Exchange at 8:00 AM since 1875 maintains trading rhythm.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human circadian rhythm aligns wake-sleep cycles to a 24-hour period despite environmental shifts.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
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    "club.social",
    "code.information",
    "color.visual",
    "common.general",
    "days.temporal",
    "dimension.spatial",
    "error.mistake",
    "even.numerical",
    "health.condition",
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    "insurance.financial",
    "jobs.employment",
    "language.communication",
    "law.rule",
    "line.geometric",
    "march.movement",
    "measurement.quantitative",
    "minutes.temporal",
    "month.temporal",
    "newsletter.communication",
    "often.temporal",
    "organization.administrative",
    "organized.structure",
    "per.ratio",
    "practice.skill",
    "role.social",
    "rules.social",
    "second.temporal",
    "software.digital",
    "sports.activity",
    "standard.norm",
    "statistics.data",
    "subscribe.service",
    "test.assessment",
    "text.written",
    "thursday.temporal",
    "usual.common",
    "week.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "regular"
  ],
  "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-regular.frequency"
}