{
  "id": "source.origin",
  "term": "source",
  "sense": "origin",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "source",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place where a thing begins",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "change.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "the place marks where the thing begins",
    "novel_properties": [
      "origin",
      "starting point"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Nile's White Nile branch begins at Lake Victoria, feeding the river's flow across Sudan and Egypt.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Bitcoin network generates new blocks approximately every 10 minutes, starting from the genesis block in 2009.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Glacial meltwater from the Himalayas forms the headwaters of the Ganges, sustaining river flow downstream.",
      "domain": "environment"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "according.agreement",
    "degree.measurement",
    "delay.timing",
    "feedback.communication",
    "institutional-memory.path-dependence",
    "original.first",
    "quote.writing",
    "start.action",
    "subscribe.service"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "source",
    "sourced",
    "sources",
    "sourcing"
  ],
  "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-source.origin"
}