{
  "id": "training.skill",
  "term": "training",
  "sense": "skill",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 22,
  "arena": "word",
  "domain": "ordinary",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a repeated cognitive process that leads to mastery through practice and adaptation",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "repeats.action",
      "learn.cognitive",
      "control.ability",
      "cognitive.mental",
      "make.verb",
      "process.general"
    ],
    "interaction": "repeats and learning interact to form a stable, self-sustaining capacity for control",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mastery",
      "enduring capacity",
      "adaptive precision"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The violinist practiced scales daily for 10,000 hours before winning the Tchaikovsky Competition.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "IBM's Deep Blue ran millions of chess simulations to defeat Garry Kasparov in 1997.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Pilots train in flight simulators for 200 hours annually to maintain certification on Boeing 787s.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "technical.skill"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "train",
    "trained",
    "training",
    "trainings",
    "trains"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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 omitted components required by the definition. Tightened definition to avoid circularity and better reflect constituent concepts without drifting from intended meaning."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-training.skill"
}