emergent

See emerge, emergency.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒənt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒənt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənt

emergent (comparative more emergent, superlative most emergent)

1. Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
2. Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.

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3. (especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.
   • 1987, Navy Medicine, page 8:

     Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.

   • 2001, Christopher Hillyer, Krista L. Hillyer, Frank Strobl, Leigh Jefferies, Leslie Silberstein, Handbook of Transfusion Medicine, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 206:

     Bleeding manifestations in chronic DIC are more subacute than in acute DIC, but may become emergent as DIC progresses.

   • 2017, A. Joseph Layon, Andrea Gabrielli, Mihae Yu, Kenneth E. Wood, Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:

     As a rule, esophageal disorders become emergent when the airway is compromised either by the initial insult or by a high risk of aspiration.

   • 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:

     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.

4. (botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
5. (botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
6. (video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
   • 2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, page 126:

     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.

7. (philosophy, sciences) Having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
   • 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:

     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.

emergent (plural emergents)

1. (botany) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.

• “emergent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “emergent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): [emɛʁˈɡɛnt]
• Hyphenation: emer‧gent

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emergent (strong nominative masculine singular emergenter, not comparable)

1. emergent

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ēmergent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēmergō

Borrowed from French émergent, from Latin emergens.

emergent m or n (feminine singular emergentă, masculine plural emergenți, feminine and neuter plural emergente)

1. emergent