{
  "id": "thursday.temporal",
  "term": "thursday",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "calendar",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the fourth regular period of a week",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "week.temporal",
      "regular.frequency",
      "fourth.ordinal",
      "period.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the week repeats a regular pattern and the fourth slot of that pattern creates this period",
    "novel_properties": [
      "ordinal position in cycle",
      "recurring temporal unit",
      "fixed sequence role"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Weekly Standard published every Thursday until 2018, anchoring U.S. political discourse to a seven-day rhythm.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the Soviet calendar of 1929–1940, Thursday was the fourth day of a five-day workweek, disrupting traditional weekly cycles.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel version 5.13 was released on June 27, 2021, a Thursday, following the project’s predictable release schedule.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "period.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "wednesday.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "thursday",
    "thursdays"
  ],
  "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 'period.temporal' to components since the definition explicitly refers to a 'period'; this completes the emergence structure and resolves the coherence issue with 'cycle.loop' implicitly covered"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thursday.temporal"
}