{
  "id": "rich.abundant",
  "term": "rich",
  "sense": "abundant",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "many transformations available locally without leaving the window",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "transformation.phase",
      "local.spatial",
      "available.accessible",
      "leave.movement",
      "maintenance.upkeep"
    ],
    "interaction": "Conditions within a window's range persist through maintenance, enabling accessible local transformations that do not require exiting the window.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent local conditions",
      "on-site transformability",
      "boundary-constrained change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Amazon rainforest recycles 50% of its rainfall locally through rapid evapotranspiration and cloud formation, sustaining its own climate.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the Linux kernel, thousands of device drivers are compiled in or loaded dynamically, enabling immediate hardware adaptation without user-space transitions.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake triggered over 1,000 aftershocks within the first month, all within the same fault system, without requiring tectonic shifts from adjacent plates.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "rich",
    "richer",
    "richest"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'windows.opening' as a constitutive component since the definition implicitly references window-as-structure. All other components are retained because they are directly invoked or logically req"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rich.abundant"
}