{
  "id": "surplus.excess",
  "term": "surplus",
  "sense": "excess",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 19,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Output that exceeds the capacity of input windows to consume it.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "capacity.size",
      "potential.capacity"
    ],
    "interaction": "The interplay of drifting conditions against bounded capacity windows reveals when potential cannot be absorbed due to fixed size limits.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unabsorbed flow",
      "capacity saturation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 U.S. housing market collapsed after mortgage-backed securities exceeded regulatory absorption capacity.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima nuclear plant produced decay heat after shutdown, exceeding coolant system intake capacity.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon's 2020 warehouse automation generated robotic inventory movement faster than human packers could process.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "surplus"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "windows.opening (L10) was excluded as it refers to physical structures and is not constitutive of the abstract capacity-limit concept described."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-surplus.excess"
}