{
  "id": "web.structure",
  "term": "web",
  "sense": "structure",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a structure of many pieces that touch each other",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "structure.arrangement",
      "interaction.process",
      "touch.together",
      "piece.portion"
    ],
    "interaction": "the pieces are in arrangement and each piece touches another",
    "novel_properties": [
      "connected network",
      "distributed contact",
      "emergent cohesion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The World Wide Web links billions of documents through hyperlinks and URLs, forming a global information structure.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Spider silk strands in an orb web connect at nodes, creating a resilient structure that traps flying insects.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapsed in 2007 when gusset plates failed, unraveling its structural web.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "blog.online",
    "browser.software",
    "email.digital",
    "online.digital"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "web",
    "webs"
  ],
  "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 'piece.portion' to components to align with definition. Definition did not lean on extraneous concepts nor was factually wrong. Missing component was the sole issue."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-web.structure"
}