{
  "id": "stop.action",
  "term": "stop",
  "sense": "action",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "stop",
  "domain": "all",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to be a change that motion interacts with limit and ends",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "boundary.limit",
      "change.process",
      "interaction.process",
      "interacting.social",
      "limit.boundary"
    ],
    "interaction": "motion interacts with limit through mutual change, resulting in cessation of movement",
    "novel_properties": [
      "cessation of movement",
      "mutual resistance",
      "final displacement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider halts proton beams when superconducting magnets exceed 9.2 K, quenching the magnetic field. [physics]",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2003, the Northeast Blackout stopped when overloaded transmission lines hit thermal limits, severing grid connectivity. [engineering]",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. government shutdown in December 2018 halted federal services when appropriations expired. [institutions]",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "abstraction.process",
    "doomed.inevitable",
    "momentum.retained",
    "overshoot.dynamics"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "stop",
    "stopped",
    "stopping",
    "stops"
  ],
  "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 'interacting.social' and 'limit.boundary' to align components with the definition's reliance on physical contact and absolute restraint. Definition unchanged; it accurately reflects the emergent"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-stop.action"
}