{
  "id": "turn.rotational",
  "term": "turn",
  "sense": "rotational",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "turn",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make a thing change its direction in space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "change.process",
      "direction.spatial",
      "space.extent",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "motion together with a change of direction, enabled by the act of making, creates a new orientation of the thing in space",
    "novel_properties": [
      "altered orientation",
      "intentional redirection",
      "spatial repositioning"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Earth completes one full rotation every 23.93 hours, pivoting on its axis relative to the stars.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Perseverance rotated its six-wheeled base 180 degrees to reorient toward the Jezero Crater rim.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A figure skater spins faster by pulling her arms in, conserving angular momentum during a triple axel.",
      "domain": "sports"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "turn",
    "turned",
    "turning",
    "turns"
  ],
  "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 'make.verb' to components since the definition implies agency and causation not present in motion or change alone."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-turn.rotational"
}