{
  "id": "war.conflict",
  "term": "war",
  "sense": "conflict",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "war.conflict",
  "domain": "process.general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Groups use force in an organized interaction.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "groups.collection",
      "force.push",
      "organized.structure",
      "interaction.process",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "Groups apply force in a mutual, structured way that sustains change between them.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual engagement under structure",
      "sustained coercive exchange",
      "organized opposition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2003 invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime within weeks.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ant colonies fight neighboring colonies for territory using coordinated biting and stinging.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1940 Battle of Britain saw sustained aerial combat between RAF and Luftwaffe forces.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "loss.economic",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "war",
    "warred",
    "warring",
    "wars"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "The original record omitted interaction and use—core to the concept. Added interaction.process and use.application as components because the definition correctly depends on them. No change to definiti"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-war.conflict"
}