{
  "id": "year.time",
  "term": "year",
  "sense": "time",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "draft",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "year",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a length of time that persists about three hundred sixty five days",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "change.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "time passes while the pattern of days repeats to complete a full cycle",
    "novel_properties": [
      "patterned cycle",
      "approximate length",
      "calendar unit"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Halley's Comet returns every 76 years, last seen in 1986 and next expected in 2061.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station completed 5,760 orbits around Earth in one year as of 2023.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The fiscal year 2020 in the United States ran from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "annual.temporal",
    "christmas.holiday",
    "december.date",
    "february.calendar",
    "june.month",
    "month.temporal",
    "october.month",
    "summer.season"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "year",
    "years"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-year.time"
}