{
  "id": "today.temporal",
  "term": "today",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "lexicon",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the day of now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a day and now are together",
    "novel_properties": [
      "present day",
      "current date"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, a day marked in UTC as starting at 00:00 and ending at 23:59.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tokyo recorded 35°C at 3 PM on August 1, 2023, during a heatwave monitored by the Japan Meteorological Agency.",
      "domain": "meteorology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The New York Stock Exchange processed 1.2 billion shares on March 15, 2024, its highest volume that fiscal quarter.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "days.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "today"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-today.temporal"
}