{
  "id": "wealth.range",
  "term": "wealth",
  "sense": "range",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "emergent",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "the range of a parameter within which a thing can be without new conditions having to be met first.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "condition.state",
      "first.order",
      "range.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components together define a bounded parameter range within a persistent state, where the limits are determined by order and spatial boundaries, and the persistence of the thing depends on not triggering new conditions.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bounded persistence",
      "condition-free range",
      "parameter stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains internal pressure between 97.9–102.7 kPa to avoid triggering emergency oxygen release.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The US Federal Reserve targets inflation at 2% annually, adjusting rates if deviations exceed ±0.5% over three quarters.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Lake Mead's water level stayed within 305–322 meters above sea level from 1983 to 2000, keeping hydroelectric turbines operational.",
      "domain": "infrastructure"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "window.range",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "Wealth is a form of window"
    },
    {
      "id": "freedom.range",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "freedom is about action possibility, wealth about condition persistence"
    },
    {
      "id": "maintenance.upkeep",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "Wealth reduces need for maintenance work"
    },
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "Drift moves through change, wealth resists it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "wealth"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "window.range is not constitutive—the definition does not depend on the thing ending outside the range, only on avoiding new conditions, so it was removed. meeting.social and new.recent were irrelevant"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wealth.range"
}