{
  "id": "regularity.pattern",
  "term": "regularity",
  "sense": "pattern",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "regularity",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A pattern that repeats the same way through time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "repeats.action",
      "time.dimension",
      "way.method"
    ],
    "interaction": "The pattern is repeated through time, maintaining its form via a consistent method across successive occurrences.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "consistent recurrence",
      "temporal invariance",
      "methodological repetition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The rotation of Earth produces a 24-hour day consistently for millions of years.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The oscillation of a cesium-133 atom defines the second in atomic clocks with extreme precision.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The seasonal migration of monarch butterflies follows the same route every year across generations.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "beauty.aesthetic",
    "measurement.quantitative",
    "print.material",
    "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence",
    "the-way-we-have-always-done-it.path"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "regularities",
    "regularity"
  ],
  "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 'way.method' as a necessary component since the regularity of the pattern across time implies a consistent method or path of repetition, which was conceptually required by the definition but mis"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-regularity.pattern"
}