{
  "id": "research.investigation",
  "term": "research",
  "sense": "investigation",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "research",
  "domain": "operation",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "work that searches for information by interaction with matter in a system",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "work.effort",
      "search.action",
      "information.knowledge",
      "interaction.process",
      "matter.substance",
      "system.organized"
    ],
    "interaction": "Effortful searching gathers knowledge through interaction with matter within an organized system.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "discovery of unknown patterns",
      "structured empirical inquiry",
      "generation of testable knowledge"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider at CERN collides protons to detect subatomic particles like the Higgs boson.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Human Genome Project mapped all 3.2 billion base pairs of human DNA between 1990 and 2003.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Google’s PageRank algorithm analyzed hyperlink structures to rank web pages by relevance in 1998.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "university.education"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "research",
    "researched",
    "researches",
    "researching"
  ],
  "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 components (interaction.process, matter.substance, system.organized) to align with definition. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-research.investigation"
}