---
title: "NearnessBar"
description: "the bars of one breadth: the least similarity the name channel accepts and the least nearness the meaning channel accepts"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/nearnessbar
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# NearnessBar

the bars of one breadth: the least similarity the name channel accepts and the least nearness the meaning channel accepts

[figure: NearnessBar is a value at none scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | value |
| scope | none |
| key | none |
| store | none |
| family | rules_engine |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `share` | yes | the least trigram similarity of names the name channel accepts |
| `meaning` | `share` | yes | the least cosine nearness of vectors under the one model the meaning channel accepts |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns NearnessBar directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.