{
  "id": "rest.recovery",
  "term": "rest",
  "sense": "recovery",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A parameter whose window is such that maintenance is restored when drift returns it within the range.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "range.spatial",
      "return.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "parameter.condition, window.range, drift.aimless, maintenance.upkeep, range.spatial, and return.movement interact so that aimless change in a parameter can bring it back into a sustaining range, restarting maintenance.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "maintenance resumption",
      "cyclic recovery",
      "range re-entry"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains altitude through periodic reboosts after orbital decay drops it below 400 km.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons return to -70 mV resting potential after firing, resetting ion gradients via sodium-potassium pumps.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake relieved stress along the Japan Trench, ending a 400-year segment of seismic quiescence.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "rest"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "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' — irrelevant homograph. Added 'range.spatial' and 'return.movement' as genuinely constitutive: recovery depends on spatial range and movement back into it. Kept only componen"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rest.recovery"
}