{
  "id": "security.safety",
  "term": "security",
  "sense": "safety",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "security",
  "domain": "safety",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a condition where a thing stays inside its boundary and others are not inside.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "boundary.limit",
      "persist.continue",
      "inside.spatial",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "condition.state"
    ],
    "interaction": "the boundary keeps others out while the thing remains inside, creating a protected condition.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "protected containment",
      "exclusion of external entities",
      "persistent integrity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains atmospheric pressure within its hull, keeping vacuum outside.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Antibodies in human blood identify and neutralize pathogens while preserving self-cells.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack briefly breached digital perimeter controls in the US fuel network.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "condition.state",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "insurance.financial",
    "login.digital",
    "password.security"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "securities",
    "security"
  ],
  "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 'condition.state' to components since the definition describes a persistent state, and the concept of a condition is not fully assembled from the other components without it."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-security.safety"
}