{
  "id": "system.organized",
  "term": "system",
  "sense": "organized",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "system",
  "domain": "noun",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of parts that interact together in a structure",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "part.relation",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "interaction.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "the parts change each other through their connections within the arrangement",
    "novel_properties": [
      "emergent behavior",
      "cohesive function",
      "interdependence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit through periodic reboosts by visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human circulatory system delivers oxygen using a network of vessels and a four-chambered heart.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel integrates device drivers, file systems, and process schedulers to manage computer hardware.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "administration.administrative",
    "ancient.temporal",
    "authenticity.state",
    "bottleneck.constraint",
    "city.place",
    "context.surrounding-conditions",
    "department.organizational",
    "dissonance.conflict",
    "ecosystem.interdependent",
    "erosion.process",
    "federal.government",
    "governance.administrative",
    "grip.constraint",
    "harmony.relational",
    "industry.economic",
    "internet.digital",
    "invasive.system",
    "keystone.system",
    "legacy-code.unmeasured",
    "legacy.enduring",
    "network.system",
    "niche.parameter-space",
    "obsolete.inactive",
    "parasitism.systemic",
    "policy.governance",
    "redundancy.engineering",
    "reputation.social-model",
    "research.investigation",
    "resource.material",
    "responsibility.moral",
    "scaffold.temporary",
    "science.knowledge",
    "season.climate",
    "submit.administrative",
    "symbiosis.mutual",
    "threshold.boundary",
    "trust.reliance",
    "user.role",
    "waste.output"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "system",
    "systems"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "reconciled; added missing 'interaction.process' as constitutive for true interaction, which is central to the definition"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-system.organized"
}