emergent
coming into view or notice; issuing.
emerging; rising from a liquid or other surrounding medium.
coming into existence, especially with political independence: the emergent nations of Africa.
arising casually or unexpectedly.
calling for immediate action; urgent.
Evolution. displaying emergence.
Ecology. an aquatic plant having its stem, leaves, etc., extending above the surface of the water.
Origin of emergent
1Other words from emergent
- e·mer·gent·ly, adverb
- e·mer·gent·ness, noun
- non·e·mer·gent, adjective
- re·e·mer·gent, adjective
- un·e·mer·gent, adjective
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How to use emergent in a sentence
Throughout the year, with cases staying stubbornly high, doctors warned about the consequences of non-Covid-19 patients were postponing care for chronic or emergent conditions.
Readily available digital technologies can be used to provide local and remote computing power, enable information retrieval and analysis, and disseminate emergent knowledge.
Digital Technologies Will Help Build Resilient Communities After the Coronavirus Pandemic | Yolande E. Chan | September 30, 2020 | Singularity HubIn this approach, quantum mechanics is emergent from a deterministic hidden-variables model which acknowledges that everything in the universe is connected with everything else.
Your Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics - Facts So Romantic | Sabine Hossenfelder | September 3, 2020 | NautilusNames like that emerge in the wave of secondary scholarship reacting to a new idea, and emergent names aren’t always bad.
Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Laura Ball | September 2, 2020 | NautilusTo that end, the call to Crusades was possibly an intentional measure taken by the Pope with the aim to politically unite the Eastern Orthodox church with the emergent Catholic church of Europe.
History of the Crusades: Origins, Politics, and Crusaders | Dattatreya Mandal | March 23, 2020 | Realm of History
emergent procedures provide their benefit right away and have the awesome potential to rescue a patient from the brink of death.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Risky Heart Surgery | Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe Could Be King is, of course, part of a larger emergent genre, that of the high school football hagiography.
Two New Films Preach Our Nation’s Corrosive Gridiron Gospel | Steve Almond | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs with any emergent technology where an action is involved, the brand becomes the verb.
Her latest book is The New Arab Man: emergent Masculinities, Technologies and Islam in the Middle East.
IVF for Just $300 Could Be a Reality Soon | Randi Hutter Epstein | August 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn his new book, Present Shock, the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff takes a stab at describing an emergent cultural phenomenon.
Not Much New in Douglas Rushkoff’s Reading of the Future | Jacob Silverman | March 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBritain is an emergent mass of land rising from a submarine platform that attaches it to the Continent of Europe.
The Cornwall Coast | Arthur L. SalmonShe was to act in the same manner if emergent cases required a prompt decision.
The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete | Friedrich SchillerNotopodia reduced to small lobes at base of neuropodia above, these lobes smooth, bearing no emergent setae in the type.
So the burden of national crises is squarely upon the dominant classes who fight so foolishly against the emergent ones.
A Preface to Politics | Walter LippmannWhat if diabolic shapes lurked there, ready to become stealthily emergent?
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas Malet
British Dictionary definitions for emergent
/ (ɪˈmɜːdʒənt) /
coming into being or notice: an emergent political structure
(of a nation) recently independent
an aquatic plant with stem and leaves above the water
Derived forms of emergent
- emergently, adverb
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Scientific definitions for emergent
[ ĭ-mûr′jənt ]
Rooted below a body of water or in an area that is periodically submerged but extending above the water level. Used of aquatic plants such as cattails, rushes, or cord grass.
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