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  "id": "standard.norm",
  "term": "standard",
  "sense": "norm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "standard",
  "domain": "L3",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is just and regular and is used as a measure for other things",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
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      "regular.frequency",
      "measure.quantitative",
      "measurement.quantitative",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "just and regular together make a reference that other things can compare to",
    "novel_properties": [
      "comparative reference point",
      "quantifiable standard",
      "consistent benchmark"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Prototype of the Kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, defined the unit of mass from 1889 until 2019.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Federal Reserve raises interest rates seven times between 2022 and 2023 to combat inflation above its 2% target.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Unicode Standard assigns unique code points to over 140,000 characters across 161 modern and historic scripts.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
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      "id": "law.rule",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
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      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
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    "meters.measurement",
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  ],
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    "standards"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive concepts to align components with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-standard.norm"
}