{
  "id": "tuesday.temporal",
  "term": "tuesday",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "tuesday.temporal",
  "domain": "time",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the second day of a week",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "week.temporal",
      "second.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a sequence of days repeats in a regular cycle and one of them is the second in that cycle, this day is identified as Tuesday.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "positioned recurrence",
      "cyclic ordering",
      "named temporal unit"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbited Earth every 90 minutes on Tuesday, 5 April 2022, as scheduled in NASA's weekly operations plan.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Black Tuesday, 29 October 1929, marked the stock market crash that intensified the Great Depression.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The weekly Linux kernel release cycle advanced on Tuesday, 13 August 2019, when Linus Torvalds tagged version 5.3.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "days.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "wednesday.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "tuesday",
    "tuesdays"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'second.temporal' as a constitutive component since the definition inherently relies on ordinal position within a repeating cycle."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tuesday.temporal"
}