{
  "id": "wheel.tool",
  "term": "wheel",
  "sense": "tool",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "wheels",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A round piece that moves around a center to carry a thing.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "motion.movement",
      "center.location",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "round.shape",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The round piece rotates around its center, producing motion that transports a thing in contact and under control.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "rotating transport",
      "controlled circular motion",
      "centered rotation with load"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The London Eye rotates once every 30 minutes, carrying 32 capsules around its central hub.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A potter shapes wet clay on a kick-wheel spinning at 60 revolutions per minute in Jingdezhen, China.",
      "domain": "craft"
    },
    {
      "text": "The O-ring seal in the Space Shuttle Challenger's solid rocket booster failed at 73 seconds into flight.",
      "domain": "disaster"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "travel.movement",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "auto.vehicle",
    "car.transport",
    "cart.transport"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "wheel",
    "wheeled",
    "wheeling",
    "wheels"
  ],
  "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": "Definition was factually insufficient — omitted carrying mechanism and shape prerequisite; added missing constitutive components and updated interaction to reflect emergent function. Adjusted for accu"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wheel.tool"
}