{
  "id": "type.category",
  "term": "type",
  "sense": "category",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "concept",
  "domain": "metaphysics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A kind of set of things that are not different from each other.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "sets.grouped",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a kind of set of things that are not different from each other is made, it is a type.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared category",
      "collective label",
      "group identity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Water molecules in a snowflake exhibit hexagonal symmetry due to hydrogen bonding at 0°C and standard pressure.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "All cells in a human liver express the same core set of genes defining hepatocyte function.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Every instance of the 'Button' component in the 2023 React library shares identical default properties and behavior.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "category.group",
    "class.category",
    "edition.publication",
    "green.color",
    "title.label",
    "version.variant"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "type",
    "typed",
    "types",
    "typing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-type.category"
}