{
  "id": "return.movement",
  "term": "return",
  "sense": "movement",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "return",
  "domain": "noun",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to go back to a previous place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "go.movement",
      "back.spatial",
      "previous.temporal",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the movement returns along space to a prior location by combining direction, prior time, and spatial extent",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recurrent trajectory",
      "temporal-spatial return",
      "reversal within extent"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Halley's Comet orbit returns to the inner solar system every 76 years.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "After 2017, the California Department of Forestry reversed its policy and returned to using inmate firefighters.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, returned data from beyond 150 AU until its instruments were powered down.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "go.movement",
      "note": "go.movement",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "cycle.loop",
    "exchange.trade",
    "loan.financial",
    "pay.economic",
    "recovery.interval",
    "rental.economic",
    "repair.restore",
    "resilience.recovery-rate",
    "rest.recovery",
    "stable.condition"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "return",
    "returned",
    "returning",
    "returns"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "added space.extent to components, as the concept of 'place' in the definition inherently depends on spatial extent, which was previously omitted"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-return.movement"
}