{
  "id": "release.general",
  "term": "release",
  "sense": "general",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "release",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to let a thing go from a place where it is bounded to a place where it is not",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "boundary.limit",
      "change.process",
      "go.movement",
      "let.permission",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the boundary limit opens, allowing a change process that permits movement from one space to another",
    "novel_properties": [
      "transition across boundaries",
      "permissioned release",
      "spatial liberation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake released 400 million times the energy of Hiroshima's atomic bomb as tectonic plates slipped 50 meters.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux Foundation released version 5.10 of the kernel, enabling new hardware support across millions of devices.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Volkswagen released 11 million diesel cars with software that evaded emissions limits, later exposed by EPA tests.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "published.information"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "release",
    "released",
    "releases",
    "releasing"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive concepts: go.movement, let.permission, space.extent, which are essential to the meaning of 'release' as a permitted movement across a boundary into open space"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-release.general"
}