{
  "id": "yellow.color",
  "term": "yellow",
  "sense": "color",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 22,
  "arena": "hot",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the visual color that arises when light interacts with matter in a regular pattern resembling the sun's light",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "light.visual",
      "matter.substance",
      "color.visual",
      "like.similarity",
      "sun.celestial",
      "interaction.process",
      "visual.perceptual"
    ],
    "interaction": "light and matter interact through mutual change, producing a visual property in a pattern similar to sunlight",
    "novel_properties": [
      "yellow visual quality",
      "sun-like hue perception",
      "distinct color signature"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The surface of the Sun emits light at wavelengths peaking around 580 nanometers, perceived as yellow by human vision.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "A ripe banana reflects light predominantly in the 570–590 nm range, appearing yellow under daylight conditions.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The paint on a school bus absorbs blue and red light, reflecting yellow wavelengths due to its chemical composition.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "color.visual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "blue.color",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "gold.metal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "yellow",
    "yellowed",
    "yellowing",
    "yellows"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "Added interaction.process and visual.perceptual which are essential for the defined phenomenon but were missing in components; revised definition slightly for accuracy and alignment with components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-yellow.color"
}