{
  "id": "site.location",
  "term": "site",
  "sense": "location",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "site",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place that has boundaries and where things happen",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "boundary.limit",
      "setting.contextual",
      "happen.event-occurrence"
    ],
    "interaction": "The extent, boundary, and setting together enable occurrences by defining a contained, situated locus where changes unfold.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bounded occurrence",
      "situated change",
      "stable locus for events"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant released radiation after the 2011 tsunami disabled cooling systems.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Yellowstone National Park spans 3,468 square miles where geothermal events shape ecosystems.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider at CERN accelerates particles to 99.999999% of light speed in a 27-km ring.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "homepage.web",
    "map.spatial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "site",
    "sites"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'happen.event-occurrence' to components to align record with definition, which implies occurrence as constitutive."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-site.location"
}