{
  "id": "see.visual",
  "term": "see",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "see",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "change when matter interacts with marks visible in space extent",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "marks.visual",
      "space.extent",
      "change.process",
      "interaction.process",
      "extent.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter and marks visual interact across space extent, altering each other through mutual change.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "visual perception",
      "spatial interaction",
      "mutual state alteration"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope captured the Pillars of Creation in 1995, revealing star formation in the Eagle Nebula.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "A frog's retina detects flies moving across its visual field, triggering a tongue strike at 150 milliseconds latency.",
      "domain": "neurobiology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2017 total solar eclipse was visible along a 70-mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "blog.online",
    "check.verification",
    "gallery.space",
    "look.visual",
    "map.spatial",
    "notice.perceptual",
    "privacy.social",
    "read.information",
    "show.visual",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion",
    "transparent.visual",
    "view.visual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "saw",
    "see",
    "seeing",
    "seen",
    "sees"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "Added extent.spatial as it is implied in 'space extent' in definition; tightened definition to remove redundancy and align with components. Factual correction made: original definition used 'marks vis"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-see.visual"
}