{
  "id": "sea-change.threshold",
  "term": "sea change",
  "sense": "threshold",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "the change of state itself",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "the parameter that sets the thing's state drifts past its wall, causing the window to relocate and the thing to persist in a newly defined state",
  "folk_gloss": "a profound or fundamental transformation",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "window.range",
      "change.process",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "the parameter drifts beyond its wall, which forces the window to shift to a new region",
    "novel_properties": [
      "abrupt relocation of functional window"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "sea change"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the change of state itself"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sea-change.threshold"
}