{
  "id": "scar.residual",
  "term": "scar",
  "sense": "residual",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "emergence theory",
  "domain": "window ontology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a permanently narrower window left by a past excursion of a parameter where the walls were forced beyond their usual boundaries.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "past.temporal",
      "usual.common",
      "leave.movement",
      "boundary.limit",
      "force.push"
    ],
    "interaction": "an aimless drift pushes a parameter beyond its usual range boundaries, forcing walls apart and leaving a narrower window upon return.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "permanently reduced range",
      "residual constriction",
      "asymmetric recovery"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The San Andreas Fault remains a narrow fracture zone after tectonic forces pushed crustal blocks beyond their original alignment in 1857 and never returned.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2008 financial crisis, LIBOR rates settled into a narrower band than before, despite central bank interventions ending.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone's radiation levels dropped but left a permanently restricted area 30 km wide, two decades after the meltdown.",
      "domain": "environment"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "parameter.condition",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a scar is a reduced range vs. normal window of parameter"
    },
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "scarred window resists drift, unlike open-ended drift"
    },
    {
      "id": "maintenance.upkeep",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "maintenance preserves a window, scar indicates a failure of maintenance"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "scar",
    "scars"
  ],
  "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 'left.direction' and 'windows.opening' — while 'left' in the definition is verbal (from 'leave'), not directional, and 'windows.opening' is architecturally metaphorical but not constitutive. R"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-scar.residual"
}