{
  "id": "saturday.temporal",
  "term": "saturday",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "saturday.day",
  "domain": "time",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the part of time in a week that is after friday and before sunday",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "friday.temporal",
      "sunday.day",
      "part.relation",
      "time.dimension",
      "week.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "friday and sunday together define the part of time between them",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intermediate day",
      "bounded duration",
      "cyclic position"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the New York Transit Authority delayed subway maintenance on the 4 line, causing cascading delays every Saturday.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Opportunity stopped transmitting on a Saturday in June 2018 during a planet-wide dust storm.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "Every Saturday, the Chicago Board Options Exchange halts trading in S&P 500 futures at 3 PM Central.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "week.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "saturday",
    "saturdays"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "definition originally omitted constitutive concepts like part.relation, time.dimension, and week.temporal which are necessary for 'part of time in a week'"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-saturday.temporal"
}