{
  "id": "score.points",
  "term": "score",
  "sense": "points",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "score",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a quantity that is how much a thing differs from others in a game",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "quantity.numerical",
      "difference.relation",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "The quantity and the difference are how a thing differs from others in a game",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative performance measure",
      "aggregated point total"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 NBA Finals, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat 106–98 in Game 6 to win the series 4–2.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Therac-25 radiation therapy machine delivered fatal overdoses due to software race conditions.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 542 points on November 9, 2016, following U.S. presidential election results.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "score",
    "scored",
    "scores",
    "scoring"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-score.points"
}