{
  "id": "sound.auditory",
  "term": "sound",
  "sense": "auditory",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "sound",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a pattern of energy that moves through matter",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "audio.auditory",
      "matter.substance"
    ],
    "interaction": "audio patterns move through matter and are auditory",
    "novel_properties": [
      "auditory perception",
      "wave propagation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 eruption of Mount Etna produced low-frequency sound waves detected 200 km away in Catania.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Whale songs travel across ocean basins, their patterns shaped by water temperature and salinity layers.",
      "domain": "marine biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The cracked bell of Big Ben in London still emits a distinguishable tone despite structural damage.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "audio.auditory",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "matter.substance",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "heard.auditory",
    "movies.entertainment",
    "talk.spoken",
    "voice.auditory",
    "words.language"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "sound",
    "sounded",
    "sounding",
    "sounds"
  ],
  "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-sound.auditory"
}