{
  "id": "summary.text",
  "term": "summary",
  "sense": "text",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a written text that condenses the associated parts of a larger whole into a concise spatial arrangement.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "relation.association",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "concise.linguistic",
      "text.written",
      "large.size",
      "put.placement",
      "write.communication",
      "association.relation",
      "spatial.location",
      "whole.complete"
    ],
    "interaction": "The associated parts of a large whole are placed into a concise spatial structure through written marks.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "condensed informational form",
      "hierarchical part-to-whole mapping",
      "spatially organized brevity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2017 Wikipedia summary of 'quantum entanglement' condensed a 12-page peer-reviewed physics paper into three paragraphs.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The executive summary of the 2008 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report distilled 1,439 pages of climate data into 20 bullet points.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "CliffNotes published in 1958 reduced Shakespeare’s 3,000-word 'Hamlet' to a 500-word synopsis.",
      "domain": "publishing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "summaries",
    "summary"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts that the definition relies on but were omitted in the original components. Adjusted changed flag to 'factual' due to correction of omission implying definitional in"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-summary.text"
}