{
  "id": "video.digital",
  "term": "video",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "media",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a product formed by creating visual patterns of movement as persistent data over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "visual.perceptual",
      "motion.movement",
      "data.information",
      "make.verb",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "products.goods",
      "time.dimension",
      "create.production"
    ],
    "interaction": "visual patterns of movement are made as data that persist through time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent moving images",
      "structured visual sequence",
      "temporal data artifact"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1974 'Symbiotic Seeing' video tape by artist Nam June Paik records analog electronic distortions across 28 minutes of broadcast signal interference.",
      "domain": "art"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope captured a 10-second exposure video of Jupiter's auroras in 2016, encoding charged particle motion as pixel shifts over time.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "TikTok's algorithm in 2023 served 60 billion daily video loops, each a compressed data stream of human motion framed at 30 frames per second.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "products.goods",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "visual.perceptual",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "film.entertainment",
    "movies.entertainment"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "video",
    "videos"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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 'create.production' to components to align with the definition's reliance on the act of creation; all other components are constitutive and properly ordered."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-video.digital"
}