{
  "id": "transformation.phase",
  "term": "transformation",
  "sense": "phase",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "thermodynamic",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A change where a parameter crosses a wall and the parts persist through a new window.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "persist.continue",
      "part.relation",
      "new.recent",
      "cross.symbol"
    ],
    "interaction": "Parameter drift leads to crossing a wall, triggering a change where the thing's parts continue into a new window.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "crossing event",
      "persistent parts in new context",
      "boundary transition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Water boils at 100°C at sea level, turning liquid to vapor while molecules persist through the phase shift.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A caterpillar's tissues reorganize into a butterfly during metamorphosis, with certain cells surviving the pupal transition.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis crossed a credit-default threshold, triggering systemic collapse while core banking functions endured.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "rich.abundant"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "transformation",
    "transformations"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "Added 'cross.symbol' and 'windows.opening' to align with definition's use of 'crosses a wall' and 'new window'; both are constitutive imagery in the metaphor. No cycles introduced."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-transformation.phase"
}