{
  "id": "way.method",
  "term": "way",
  "sense": "method",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a link of one place to another through space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "links.connection"
    ],
    "interaction": "the connection ties two places together, giving a route through space.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial relationship",
      "navigable path"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Silk Road connected Xian to Constantinople, spanning 4,000 miles across mountain and desert.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, maintaining a fixed path through space.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Panama Canal links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through a 50-mile engineered waterway.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "course.path",
    "distribution.economic",
    "drift.aimless",
    "else.other",
    "guide.person",
    "means.method",
    "media.communication",
    "methods.process",
    "performance.quality",
    "regularity.pattern",
    "solution.answer"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "way",
    "ways"
  ],
  "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-way.method"
}