{
  "id": "storage.physical",
  "term": "storage",
  "sense": "physical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place where matter is kept for later use",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "container.object",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "later.temporal",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the container maintains matter in a spatial extent over time, enabling its future application",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persisted availability of matter",
      "temporal deferral of use",
      "controlled access to contents"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway stores 1.2 million seed samples in permafrost at -18°C.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hoover Dam's reservoir, Lake Mead, held 32 billion cubic meters of water in 2000 before drought reduced it by half.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin's blockchain immutably stores 400 gigabytes of transaction data across thousands of nodes as of 2023.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "container.object",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a storage is a kind of container"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "storage",
    "storages"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive components that the definition implicitly requires: keep.maintenance, later.temporal, and use.application. Definition remained factually correct; no rewrite needed."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-storage.physical"
}