{
  "id": "track.path",
  "term": "track",
  "sense": "path",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "track",
  "domain": "track",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a line that is where motion repeats in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "line.geometric",
      "motion.movement",
      "repeats.action",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "motion repeats in a place and together is a line",
    "novel_properties": [
      "repeated trajectory",
      "spatiotemporal pattern"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Moon follows Earth in a nearly circular path 384,400 km wide, completing an orbit every 27.3 days.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Appalachian Trail stretches 3,500 km from Georgia to Maine, worn by generations of hikers repeating the route.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Electrons in a superconducting loop move without resistance, tracing the same microscopic path billions of times per second.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "line.geometric",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "doubt.epistemic",
    "river.watercourse",
    "tour.travel"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "track",
    "tracked",
    "tracking",
    "tracks"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing 'space.extent' to components, as the definition relies on spatial extension to ground the line and motion."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-track.path"
}