{
  "id": "several.quantity",
  "term": "several",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "several",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "more than few and less than many",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "number.quantity",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "number quantity join part parts and show more than few and less than many",
    "novel_properties": [
      "moderate count",
      "indeterminate number"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station requires reboosts every few months to counteract atmospheric drag and maintain orbit.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Between 1995 and 2005, the Linux kernel received contributions from several dozen developers, growing from 0.01 to version 2.6.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, several coral species in the Great Barrier Reef survived bleaching events while most others declined.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "harmony.relational",
    "proportion.relation",
    "tour.travel",
    "various.diverse"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "several"
  ],
  "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-several.quantity"
}