{
  "id": "value.magnitude",
  "term": "value",
  "sense": "magnitude",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 7,
  "domain": "systems",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "The number a parameter has at a time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "number.quantity",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "A parameter can change while its thing persists; fixing it at one time picks out a single number from everything it could be, and that number is what walls, edges and drift are read against.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a single reading of a changing condition",
      "comparable against a wall",
      "the thing drift changes"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "value.worth",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the number a parameter takes, not what something is worth; 'value' resolved to the price sense until 2026-09-28"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "brink.edge",
    "chaos.unpredictable-drift",
    "domino-effect.stacked",
    "extreme.position",
    "ground.level",
    "necessity.condition",
    "overload.capacity",
    "perfectionism.zero-width",
    "poker.game",
    "ripening.approaching",
    "self-esteem.setpoint",
    "set.fix",
    "wall.range-end",
    "waste.output",
    "wealth-effect.spending",
    "wishful-thinking.substitution"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "value",
    "values"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-28",
    "confidence": 0.9,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-value.magnitude"
}