{
  "id": "still.quiet",
  "term": "still",
  "sense": "quiet",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "still",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state that does not move and does not change",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "change.process",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "when motion and change are absent, a condition persists without alteration in place or form",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistence without movement",
      "unchanging presence",
      "temporal stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The granite of El Capitan in Yosemite remained unchanged for 10 million years despite wind and rain erosion.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The core memory of the Apollo Guidance Computer retained its state without refresh for hours after power-off.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Dead Sea Scrolls lay undisturbed in Qumran caves for over 2,000 years until their discovery in 1947.",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "exhaustion.capacity",
    "legacy-code.unmeasured",
    "mobile.movement",
    "neglect.omission",
    "obsolete.inactive",
    "sleep.biological"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "still"
  ],
  "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 'state.condition' as constitutive; it underpins the persistence in 'still.quiet'. Definition unchanged, as it accurately reflects the emergent state."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-still.quiet"
}