{
  "id": "noise.auditory",
  "term": "noise",
  "sense": "auditory",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "draft",
  "level": 2,
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a pattern of energy that changes in a place over time and does not repeat regularly",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "time.dimension",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "Energy changes in space over time without forming a regular pattern.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unpredictable variation",
      "lack of signal clarity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "randomness.unpredictable",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "noise contrasts with predictable patterns"
    },
    {
      "id": "sound.auditory",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "noise lacks the coherence of meaningful sound"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "noise",
    "noises"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-noise.auditory"
}