{
  "id": "stress.condition",
  "term": "stress",
  "sense": "condition",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A parameter whose window is between the performance window and the existence window, where the thing can persist but not function as usual.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "existence.state",
      "performance.quality",
      "function.purpose",
      "persist.continue",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "The parameter's range intersects with thresholds of existence and performance, such that the thing continues to exist but deviates from its typical functional purpose.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "non-optimal persistence",
      "functional deviation",
      "boundary-constrained continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit at 400 km, requiring weekly reboosts to counter atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Bear Stearns survived only 72 hours of trading after its stock dropped below $2, halting normal operations.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2019 Amazon fires, rainfall decreased 27%, pushing the rainforest toward a dieback threshold while still standing.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "stress"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'windows.opening' as it is genuinely constitutive; all other components remain as they are directly referenced or conceptually required by the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-stress.condition"
}