{
  "id": "simple.effort",
  "term": "simple",
  "sense": "effort",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "few windows beneath, whether or not it was easy to reach.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "easy.effort",
      "reach.spatial",
      "whether.conditional",
      "window.range"
    ],
    "interaction": "The presence of few openings beneath, combined with the ease of reaching them and the conditional nature of access, shapes the perception of simplicity.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "limited access points",
      "conditional ease",
      "sparse architectural features"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars Orbiter Mission operated for years on minimal ground contact, using simple preloaded commands for trajectory corrections.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A single-rope bridge in the Himalayas allows villagers to cross a gorge where building a complex structure was not feasible.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Unix operating system design relied on simple, composable tools rather than integrated, complex programs.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "easy.effort",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "basic.simple"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "simple",
    "simpler",
    "simplest"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "The original components based on abstract structural parameters were replaced with the concepts actually referenced in the canonical definition: physical windows, reachability, ease of effort, and con"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-simple.effort"
}