{
  "id": "table.furniture",
  "term": "table",
  "sense": "furniture",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "table",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a flat surface that supports objects",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "material.physical",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "flat.commonsurfacegeometry",
      "surface.exterior",
      "object.entity",
      "support.assistance"
    ],
    "interaction": "the material arrangement forms a flat exterior surface that supports objects by maintaining contact and resisting displacement",
    "novel_properties": [
      "stable supporting surface",
      "persistent object-bearing plane",
      "even load-distributing top"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's solar arrays support equipment and experiments on its flat module surfaces in microgravity.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A granite kitchen countertop in Casa Batlló bears the weight of cookware and food preparation daily.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The LHC's detector tables at CERN hold calibration instruments precisely aligned for particle tracking.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "object.entity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "items.object",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "table",
    "tables"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'object.entity' and 'support.assistance' as constitutive components missing from the record but required by the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-table.furniture"
}