{
  "id": "side.surface",
  "term": "side",
  "sense": "surface",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "E1",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A part of the boundary of a thing.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "boundary.limit"
    ],
    "interaction": "A boundary divided into parts, each part facing one region of space.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "orientation",
      "facing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Moon's near side always faces Earth due to tidal locking from gravitational forces.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Berlin Wall's western side was covered in graffiti by artists before its fall in 1989.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "A microchip's top side contains etched circuitry connecting transistors smaller than a red blood cell.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "across.spatial",
    "back.spatial",
    "bay.geographic",
    "collapse.failure",
    "exterior.spatial",
    "front.spatial",
    "left.direction",
    "north.direction",
    "page.sheet",
    "south.direction",
    "surrounded.enclosed",
    "top.upper",
    "west.direction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "side",
    "sides"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-side.surface"
}