{
  "id": "watch.tool",
  "term": "watch",
  "sense": "tool",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "device with display of time and connects to hand",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "device.tool",
      "time.dimension",
      "hand.part",
      "connects.verb",
      "display.visual"
    ],
    "interaction": "The device displays time and is connected to the hand.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "worn time indication",
      "persistent time access",
      "hand-integrated display"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apple Watch displays time and syncs with the wearer's hand via a magnetic band and skin-contact sensors.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Rolex Submariner, worn by James Cameron during his 2012 Mariana Trench dive, showed elapsed time under 1,000 atmospheres of pressure.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hamilton Ventura, issued to NASA astronauts in the 1960s, kept time on Gemini missions while strapped to the hand.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "watch is a type of device"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "watch",
    "watched",
    "watches",
    "watching"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'connects.verb' and 'display.visual' to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-watch.tool"
}