{
  "id": "thaw.recovery",
  "term": "thaw",
  "sense": "recovery",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "generic",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a parameter whose window is widening after having been narrow, closing the window that its narrow state had opened.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "close.spatial",
      "open.spatial",
      "state.condition",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components jointly describe how a parameter's allowable range, previously constricted, begins to expand over time, driven by the transition from a narrow and closed state to an open one.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "widening over time",
      "closure of prior constrained state",
      "temporal progression from narrow to open"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2021, the Suez Canal resumed shipping after the Ever Given was freed, reopening a global trade corridor.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Antarctic ozone hole shrank from 29 million km² in 2006 to 23 million km² by 2019, allowing reduced UV exposure.",
      "domain": "environment"
    },
    {
      "text": "After CPU throttling ended post-overheating, the Raspberry Pi 4 resumed full processing speed in 2020.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "frozen.state",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "thaw reverses frozen state"
    },
    {
      "id": "maintenance.upkeep",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "maintenance can prevent freezing and support thaw"
    },
    {
      "id": "relief.emergent",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "thaw enables relief by widening window"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "thaw",
    "thawed",
    "thawing",
    "thaws"
  ],
  "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": "Added 'windows.opening' as genuinely constitutive per definition's metaphorical core; retained 'close.spatial' and 'state.condition' as required by coherence check — both are active in the notion of a"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thaw.recovery"
}