{
  "id": "window-of-opportunity.threshold",
  "term": "window of opportunity",
  "sense": "threshold",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "strategic.action",
  "domain": "opportunity",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "a brief drift in a parameter that temporarily places it between two walls, allowing an action that was previously impossible",
  "folk_gloss": "a short period when conditions are right to do something",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "emergence.components",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal.opening",
      "action.enabling"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2012, the Higgs boson appeared in LHC collisions when energy levels briefly crossed 125 GeV between detection thresholds.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis allowed rapid passage of the Dodd-Frank Act before political resistance reformed.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The New Horizons probe relayed Pluto data in 2015 when its trajectory briefly placed it within signal range of Earth.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "window of opportunity"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — windows opening and closing"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window-of-opportunity.threshold"
}