{
  "id": "section.portion",
  "term": "section",
  "sense": "portion",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "section",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of an object that has its own boundary",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "boundary.limit",
      "object.entity"
    ],
    "interaction": "the piece together with its boundary marks a distinct part of the object",
    "novel_properties": [
      "distinct parthood",
      "bounded portion within a whole",
      "spatiotemporal persistence of the section"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mir space station remained in orbit for 15 years, divided into pressurized modules each serving distinct life-support and research functions.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Berlin Wall segmented the city into East and West zones, each with its own governance and infrastructure until 1989.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A mitochondrion operates as a bounded unit within a eukaryotic cell, managing energy production through its double membrane.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "department.organizational"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "section",
    "sections"
  ],
  "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 'object.entity' to components since the definition refers to 'an object', which is not defined by the other components alone. The definition remains accurate and minimal."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-section.portion"
}