{
  "id": "school.education",
  "term": "school",
  "sense": "education",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "school",
  "domain": "education",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a setting where people come to get information and work together under a structure",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "information.knowledge",
      "work.effort",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "come.arrive",
      "get.acquisition",
      "setting.contextual"
    ],
    "interaction": "people arrive at a shared context and jointly acquire knowledge through coordinated effort within a stable arrangement.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective learning",
      "structured collaboration",
      "persistent educational environment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Helsinki's Viikin normaalikoulu hosted 450 students daily in structured classes from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Khan Academy website delivered 120 million lessons in 2022 through organized modules in math and science.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1903, the Wright brothers taught each other aerodynamics through notebooks and glider tests near Kitty Hawk.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "college.education",
    "students.group",
    "university.education"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "school",
    "schooled",
    "schooling",
    "schools"
  ],
  "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": "Fixed discrepancy: definition referenced 'come', 'get', and 'setting' which were missing in components. Added them as they are constitutive. Definition remained accurate but record was incomplete."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-school.education"
}