{
  "id": "timely.punctual",
  "term": "timely",
  "sense": "punctual",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "arriving within a window during the interval it is open.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end",
      "open.spatial",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a parameter whose wall ends the window is approached by drift, arriving before the wall allows the thing to persist within the window.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "arrival within open interval",
      "persistence enabled by timing",
      "temporal eligibility"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line runs every 120 seconds on weekday mornings, rarely varying by more than 15 seconds.",
      "domain": "transportation"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Opportunity transmitted data within a 3-minute downlink window each Martian day as scheduled for 5,250 sols.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "The New York Stock Exchange opens trading at exactly 9:30:00 AM Eastern Time, down to the millisecond, every business day.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "timely"
  ],
  "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": "Removed 'windows.opening' (L10) as it refers to a physical architectural structure irrelevant to the temporal logic; retained only concepts genuinely constitutive of the notion of punctuality within a"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-timely.punctual"
}