{
  "id": "week.temporal",
  "term": "week",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a portion of days that repeat with regular pattern",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "regular.frequency",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "portion.share",
      "repeats.action"
    ],
    "interaction": "the days repeat with regular pattern and together are a bounded portion of time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recurring cycle",
      "bounded duration",
      "temporal unit"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Gregorian calendar cycles every 7 days, aligning with planetary rotation and religious traditions since 1582.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel releases follow a 2-week development cycle, merging patches before each deadline.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant operated on 7-day shifts during the 2011 crisis response.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "regular.frequency",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "friday.temporal",
    "monday.temporal",
    "saturday.temporal",
    "sunday.day",
    "thursday.temporal",
    "tuesday.temporal",
    "wednesday.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "week",
    "weeks"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "the primary fix was adding missing constitutive components; 'changed' set to 'factual' due to implied error in omission of foundational concepts"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-week.temporal"
}