{
  "id": "sample.material",
  "term": "sample",
  "sense": "material",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "sample",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece taken from a whole to act as an example",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "whole.complete",
      "example.illustration",
      "act.deed",
      "take.acquisition"
    ],
    "interaction": "Taking a piece from a whole and showing it as an example is this concept",
    "novel_properties": [
      "representative subset",
      "demonstrative instance",
      "extracted for inspection"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 11 mission returned 21.6 kilograms of lunar rock samples from the Sea of Tranquility to study on Earth.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick used Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction image 'Photograph 51' as a sample of DNA's structure.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The US Geological Survey collects water samples from the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry to monitor sediment and chemical content.",
      "domain": "environmental science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "piece.portion",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "example.illustration",
      "note": "related",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "sudden.temporal",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "sample",
    "sampled",
    "samples",
    "sampling"
  ],
  "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 act.deed and take.acquisition to components because the definition implies intentional action and physical removal, which were missing in the emergence record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sample.material"
}