{
  "id": "thousand.numerical",
  "term": "thousand",
  "sense": "numerical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "thousand",
  "domain": "numbers",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "ten groups of hundred",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "ten.numeric",
      "hundred.quantity",
      "groups.collection"
    ],
    "interaction": "ten groups of hundred together are a quantity",
    "novel_properties": [
      "multiplicative scaling",
      "three-digit magnitude",
      "intermediate scale grouping"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains 28 computer racks, each with thousands of thermal sensors.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Library of Congress catalog holds over a thousand distinct editions of Leaves of Grass.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A single gram of soil contains a thousand microbial species, per metagenomic studies in Amazon basin samples.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "hundred.quantity",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "miles.measurement"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "thousand",
    "thousands"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added 'groups.collection' as a constitutive component since the definition relies on the concept of grouped collections. Kept definition intact as it correctly reflects the emergent structure."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thousand.numerical"
}