{
  "id": "waste.output",
  "term": "waste",
  "sense": "output",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "system",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A parameter whose value is outside the window of every nearby system's input.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "outside.spatial",
      "system.organized",
      "value.worth"
    ],
    "interaction": "Drifting parameter conditions fall outside the range acceptable to any organized system nearby, becoming unvalued and unassimilable.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "abandonment by systems",
      "loss of assimilability",
      "valueless persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant released radioactive water into the Pacific after cooling systems failed post-tsunami.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin mining consumes 127 terawatt-hours yearly, exceeding Norway's annual residential electricity use.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe transmits data at 160 bits per second through a 45-year-old fault-prone system.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "waste"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'windows.opening' (irrelevant, non-constitutive); retained and added 'value.worth' (implied in unassimilability due to lack of utility). All components are pre-existing and acyclic."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-waste.output"
}