{
  "id": "spatial.location",
  "term": "spatial",
  "sense": "location",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "spatial",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "related to where a thing is in space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "location.spatial",
      "related.association"
    ],
    "interaction": "space.extent provides the arena and location.spatial provides a point, while related.association links the thing to that point, together specifying its spatial position.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial reference",
      "position assignment",
      "location binding"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The GPS constellation maintains satellite positions within 2 meters of their assigned orbits using thrusters and ground tracking.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bees in a hive orient their waggle dances to the sun's azimuth, communicating spatial direction to food sources.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 update of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame fixed coordinates of 1,000 ground stations to within 1 mm precision.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "open.spatial",
    "summary.text"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "spatial"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added related.association as it is implicitly required for relating an object to a location; the original definition leaned on 'related' which was not in components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-spatial.location"
}