{
  "id": "world.place",
  "term": "world",
  "sense": "place",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "world",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the big set of places and things that are in space through time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "big.size",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter persists in space and changes through time, grouped into a large collection of distinct but related places and things.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective scale",
      "spatiotemporal unity",
      "emergent wholeness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Earth orbits the Sun amid the Milky Way galaxy, containing billions of species and landforms shaped over eons.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Internet spans continents through undersea cables and satellites, connecting billions of devices since the 1980s.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Great Barrier Reef formed over 20 million years, stretching 2,300 kilometers with thousands of coral ecosystems.",
      "domain": "geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "entities.object",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "abstracts"
    },
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "asian.geographic",
    "despair.state",
    "geographic.spatial",
    "global.geographic",
    "international.social",
    "national.political",
    "sun.celestial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "world",
    "worlds"
  ],
  "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 'big.size' and 'sets.grouped' to components to align with the definition's reliance on scale and grouping, which were previously omitted."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-world.place"
}