{
  "id": "unoccupied.spatial",
  "term": "unoccupied",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "addition",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place where no thing occupies",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "occupied.spatial",
      "holes.empty-regions",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the occupied condition is not, so the region contains no thing",
    "novel_properties": [
      "absence of matter",
      "spatial vacancy",
      "bound potential for occupation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's docking port remained unoccupied for 18 months after Soyuz MS-19 undocked in December 2021.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The center seat at the UN Security Council table sat unoccupied during the 2022 session when Russia's delegation was absent.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A vacuum chamber at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator reaches pressures below 10⁻¹² atm, making it one of Earth's most unoccupied volumes.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "occupied.spatial",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "full.state",
    "overdue.temporal",
    "potential.capacity"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "unoccupied"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing foundational component 'space.extent' which is necessary for the notion of 'place'; definition kept as correct, record now fully aligned."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-unoccupied.spatial"
}