{
  "id": "toward.spatial",
  "term": "toward",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "in the direction that go to a location",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "direction.spatial",
      "location.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "direction.spatial and location.spatial together point where go would move to the location",
    "novel_properties": [
      "goal direction",
      "specific direction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Parker Solar Probe adjusted its trajectory toward Venus during the 2020 flyby to reach closer to the Sun.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Salmon in the Fraser River swim persistently toward freshwater spawning grounds each autumn.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover drove 246 meters toward the Séítah region in October 2021.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "direction.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "go.movement",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "approach.spatial",
    "balance.state",
    "corruption.process",
    "decay.process",
    "dissonance.conflict",
    "doomed.inevitable",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "front.spatial",
    "gay.sexual",
    "golf.sport",
    "stable.condition",
    "thanks.social",
    "unstable.condition",
    "viable.functional",
    "welcome.greeting",
    "western.directional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "toward",
    "towards"
  ],
  "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-toward.spatial"
}