emergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/
ipa: /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: more emergent
form: most emergent
Etymology: From Latin ēmergēns, present participle of ēmergō. The medical sense is a back-formation from emergency.
Senses: glosses: Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
examples: text: The chief precepts of their priests enjoin the strict keeping of their Lents, which are at least seven months in every year, and are not to be dispensed with on the most emergent necessity. Letter 43
ref: 1763, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters:
glosses: Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
examples: text: Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.
ref: 1987, Navy Medicine, page 8:
text: Bleeding manifestations in chronic DIC are more subacute than in acute DIC, but may become emergent as DIC progresses.
ref: 2001, Christopher Hillyer, Krista L. Hillyer, Frank Strobl, Leigh Jefferies, Leslie Silberstein, Handbook of Transfusion Medicine, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 206:
text: As a rule, esophageal disorders become emergent when the airway is compromised either by the initial insult or by a high risk of aspiration.
ref: 2017, A. Joseph Layon, Andrea Gabrielli, Mihae Yu, Kenneth E. Wood, Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:
text: Before communication and cognition impair decision-making, and before the medical needs for interventions become emergent, advance decisions about nutrition and ventilation must be discussed.
ref: 2019, Walter R. Frontera, Joel A. DeLisa, Bruce M. Gans, Lawrence R. Robinson, DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Constituting an emergency.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having leaves and flowers above the water.
raw_tags: of a water-dwelling plant
examples: text: In short, emergent games are ones that allow a huge range of possibilities and don't dictate a strict, linear flow of events. A strategy game is emergent because so many units can interact and have some effect on each other.
ref: 2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, page 126:
topics: video-games
glosses: Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
examples: text: an emergent property
text: A high-level phenomenon is strongly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are not deducible even in principle from truths in the low-level domain.[…] A high-level phenomenon is weakly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are unexpected given the principles governing the low-level domain.
ref: 2008, David J. Chalmers, “Strong and Weak Emergence”, in Philip Clayton, Paul Davies, editors, The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion, →DOI:
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
Synonyms: word: ascending
word: emergent
word: emerging
word: forthcoming
word: inchoate
word: incipient
word: infant
word: immature
word: nascent
word: new
word: newly-formed
word: promising
word: raw
word: up-and-coming
Derived terms: emergent counting
emergentism
emergentist
emergentistic
emergent literacy
emergently
emergentness
nonemergent
preemergent
reemergent
Related terms: emerge
emergence
emergency