emergent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
epistemology
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
video-games
Etymology: From Latin ēmergēns, present participle of ēmergō. The medical sense is a back-formation from emergency.
Inflected forms:
form: more emergent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emergent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: emergents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
pos: adj
gloss: Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
pos: adj
examples: 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
gloss: Constituting an emergency.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.
Bleeding manifestations in chronic DIC are more subacute than in acute DIC, but may become emergent as DIC progresses.
As a rule, esophageal disorders become emergent when the airway is compromised either by the initial insult or by a high risk of aspiration.
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.
gloss: Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
pos: adj
gloss: Having leaves and flowers above the water.
pos: adj
gloss: Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: an emergent property
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.
gloss: A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ascending
emergent
emerging
forthcoming
inchoate
incipient
infant
immature
nascent
new
newly-formed
promising
raw
up-and-coming
Antonyms: dying
moribund
Related words: emerge
emergence
emergency
Derived words: emergent counting
emergentism
emergentist
emergentistic
emergent literacy
emergently
emergentness
nonemergent
preemergent
reemergent
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