{
  "id": "resource.material",
  "term": "resource",
  "sense": "material",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "resource",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "output falling within the input window of a nearby system. The same substance, different neighbourhood.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "boundary.limit",
      "drift.aimless",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "matter.substance",
      "difference.relation",
      "system.organized",
      "substance.material",
      "fall.gravity"
    ],
    "interaction": "Outputs shaped by maintenance and drift cross boundaries under gravity, becoming inputs to adjacent systems when within compatible parameter windows.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "cross-boundary availability",
      "relational redefinition of substance",
      "opportunistic reintegration"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Atacama Large Millimeter Array detects cosmic dust falling into its observational range from interstellar space.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2010, a software update pushed to Tesla Roadsters reset battery charging thresholds, altering available power output.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Decaying salmon carcasses deliver nitrogen to Alaskan forest soils, entering the root uptake window of Sitka spruce.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "administration.administrative",
    "competition.social",
    "department.organizational",
    "economic.financial",
    "enables.facilitation",
    "financial.economic",
    "fuel.resource",
    "management.administrative",
    "money.economic",
    "pay.economic",
    "running-on-fumes.upkeep",
    "scarcity.condition"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "resource",
    "resourced",
    "resources",
    "resourcing"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'windows.opening' (L10) as it is architectural and not constitutive; added 'fall.gravity' (L3) as motion implied in 'falling' is essential to the emergence of resource status."
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "replaced": "A material output that moves from one organized system to another, passing through a boundary within a maintained parameter range."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-resource.material"
}