{
  "id": "substrate.level",
  "term": "substrate",
  "sense": "level",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "system",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a level whose parameters set the walls of another level's window",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "window.range",
      "level.spatial",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components form a nested structure where a spatial level contains grouped parameters whose conditional values define the range-end walls that bound another level's window.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "nested level constraints",
      "parameter-defined boundaries",
      "hierarchical windowing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In the Linux kernel, the scheduler's time-slice parameter (4ms) sets the wall for user-space processes' execution windows. [computing]",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2022 Dutch nitrogen ceiling (1.4 Tg/year) constrained building permits across provinces until new rules emerged. [institutions]",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Granite bedrock depth in Yosemite (average 1.2km) sets the lower wall for glacial valley erosion profiles. [geology]",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "pure.state"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "substrate",
    "substrates"
  ],
  "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": "Removed 'windows.opening' (L10) as it refers to physical architecture and is not constitutive; kept only concepts directly involved in the emergence of a level whose parameters define another level's "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-substrate.level"
}