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  "id": "state.condition",
  "term": "state",
  "sense": "condition",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "state",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "persist.continue",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the pattern of a thing continues while it stays in a place during time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "location‑specific condition",
      "temporal continuity",
      "identifiable configuration"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Earth's magnetic field has maintained its dipole orientation for over 780,000 years, deflecting solar radiation.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station remained in stable low-Earth orbit for over two decades despite atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has functioned as operative law since 1789, surviving civil war and societal transformation.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
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    "alienation.separation",
    "alone.state",
    "ambiguity.state",
    "availability.resource",
    "become.change",
    "black.color",
    "certain.confidence",
    "check.verification",
    "condition.state",
    "county.administrative",
    "cycle.loop",
    "easy.effort",
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    "express.communication",
    "feel.sensory",
    "fine.quality",
    "full.state",
    "goal.purpose",
    "greater-than-the-sum.excess",
    "happy.emotional",
    "hard.difficulty",
    "health.condition",
    "hot.temperature",
    "interest.psychological",
    "issue.problem",
    "keep.maintenance",
    "know.cognitive",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "legal.law",
    "life.biological",
    "light.visual",
    "mar.damage",
    "mean.signify",
    "meaning.significance",
    "mode.method",
    "need.psychological",
    "noun.language",
    "open.spatial",
    "organized.structure",
    "outcome.result",
    "playful.behavioral",
    "polite.social",
    "privacy.social",
    "problem.obstacle",
    "property.attribute",
    "protection.security",
    "quality.value",
    "questions.linguistic",
    "report.information",
    "role.social",
    "said.speech",
    "self.personal",
    "sleep.biological",
    "still.quiet",
    "thaw.recovery",
    "treatment.medical",
    "verb.grammatical",
    "whether.conditional",
    "wish.emotional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "state",
    "stated",
    "states",
    "stating"
  ],
  "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-state.condition"
}