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  "id": "time.dimension",
  "term": "time",
  "sense": "dimension",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 0,
  "arena": "E0",
  "domain": "foundation",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": null,
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    {
      "text": "The decay of carbon-14 atoms in a bone fragment shows measurable change after 5,730 years.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Amazon rainforest regrew over decades after slash-and-burn farming ceased in abandoned plots.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis erased trillions in market value within months as stock prices collapsed.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
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    "follows.sequential",
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    "insurance.financial",
    "interacting.social",
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    "life.biological",
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  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension"
}