{
  "id": "surrounded.enclosed",
  "term": "surrounded",
  "sense": "enclosed",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "space",
  "domain": "spatial_relation",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "boundary.limit",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "side.surface"
    ],
    "interaction": "Structure arranges boundaries in space such that they form an enclosure around a thing.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "complete enclosure",
      "surrounding presence",
      "central position within bounds"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Pacific Ocean is bounded by Asia, the Americas, and Antarctica, enclosing its vast waters on all sides.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neutrons in a uranium-235 nucleus are surrounded by protons and other neutrons within the nuclear radius.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The city of Paris was surrounded by German forces during the Siege of 1870, cutting off escape and supply routes.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "boundary.limit",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "surrounded implies boundaries are present on all sides, whereas boundary.limit marks where one ends"
    },
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "type": "medium-for",
      "note": "the arrangement of parts creates the condition of being surrounded"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "area.spatial",
    "hill.geographic",
    "holes.empty-regions",
    "island.geographic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "surround",
    "surrounded",
    "surrounding",
    "surrounds"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'side.surface' to components to align with definition's reliance on 'all sides'; this concept emerges from the integration of sides as aspects of boundaries within a structured spatial arrangeme"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-surrounded.enclosed"
}