{
  "id": "via.route",
  "term": "via",
  "sense": "route",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "via",
  "domain": "preposition",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "by a location in space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "location.spatial",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "a location in space creates a path that thing can travel through",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intermediate passage",
      "connecting route"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Silk Road connected Xi'an to Constantinople, enabling trade and cultural exchange across 4,000 miles of Eurasia for over 1,500 years.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Panama Canal links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, creating a maritime shortcut that cuts 8,000 nautical miles off the Cape Horn route.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neural signals travel via the vagus nerve from the gut to the brainstem, covering 100 billion neurons in the enteric system.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "pics.visual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "via"
  ],
  "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-via.route"
}