{
  "id": "relevance.core",
  "term": "relevance",
  "sense": "core",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "abstract",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a parameter whose drift moves a wall",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end",
      "motion.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "The aimless drift of a condition parameter imparts movement to a range-end wall.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed wall motion",
      "parameter-driven boundary shift"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Suez Canal blockage halted 12% of global trade until the Ever Given was refloated after six days.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode when a gyroscope failed, suspending observations for weeks.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1986 Chernobyl disaster released isotopes that rendered a 30-km radius uninhabitable for decades.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "parameter.condition",
      "note": "sdorthen",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "note": "the dirf",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "wall.range-end",
      "note": "the wall",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "across.spatial",
    "back.spatial",
    "collapse.failure",
    "page.sheet",
    "top.upper",
    "west.direction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "relevance",
    "relvance",
    "side"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Relevant node id: relevance.core"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-relevance.core"
}