{
  "id": "series.ordered",
  "term": "series",
  "sense": "ordered",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "series",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set that is ordered so each part follows the previous",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "order.arrangement",
      "follows.sequential",
      "part.relation",
      "previous.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the set’s parts are arranged in sequence so that each part comes after a prior one in a determined order",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sequential progression",
      "direct successor relation",
      "temporal or positional dependency"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Fibonacci sequence progresses 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, where each term follows the sum of the two previous.",
      "domain": "mathematics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The periodic table arranges elements by atomic number, each new entry following the previous in increasing order.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Harry Potter novels were released in order from 'Sorcerer's Stone' to 'Deathly Hallows', each book following the prior.",
      "domain": "literature"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "order.arrangement",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "career.occupation",
    "film.entertainment",
    "story.narrative"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "series"
  ],
  "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": "Definition was factually correct; record was missing essential components that the definition implicitly relies on. Added follows.sequential, part.relation, and previous.temporal to fully ground the e"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-series.ordered"
}