{
  "id": "wednesday.temporal",
  "term": "wednesday",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "wednesday.temporal",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the day of a week that follows tuesday and precedes thursday",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "week.temporal",
      "tuesday.temporal",
      "thursday.temporal",
      "follows.sequential",
      "precedes.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the day of a week follows tuesday and precedes thursday",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative temporal position",
      "ordered weekday identity",
      "contextual sequencing within a cycle"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In New York City, the 2020 presidential election was held on November 3, a Tuesday, making November 4 'Wednesday' in all official records.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station logs mission elapsed time, marking 'Wednesday' every 7.2 days in UTC for crew scheduling.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "On April 6, 1910, astronomer Edward Pickering recorded stellar observations at Harvard Observatory on a notebook labeled 'Wednesday'.",
      "domain": "science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "days.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "wednesday",
    "wednesdays"
  ],
  "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 follows.sequential and precedes.temporal as constitutive components missing from original record, which are required by the definition. Definition remains factually correct and unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wednesday.temporal"
}