emergence

See also: émergence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French émergence. Doublet of emergency. By surface analysis, emerge +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/, /iˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/, /iˈmɝ.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/

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Noun

emergence (countable and uncountable, plural emergences)

1. The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.
2. In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
3. (obsolete) An emergency.
   • 1790, Charles Hamilton, Transactions During the Reign of Queen Anne:

     In this dire emergence, the Marquis de Torcy, minister for foreign affairs, offered his services.

   • 1812, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 452:

     I […] had recourse to an English Merchant, Mr Gregory, long settled at Dunkirk, to whom, happily, I had been recommended, as to a person capable, in any emergence, to afford me assistance.

Derived terms

• coemergence
• postemergence
• preemergence
• reemergence, re-emergence

 

Related terms

• emerge
• emergent

 

Translations

the act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view

• Bulgarian: изплуване n (izpluvane), появяване n (pojavjavane)
• Catalan: emergència (ca) f
• Dutch: opkomst (nl)
• Finnish: ilmaantuminen (fi), esille tuleminen, ilmestyminen (fi), pilkahtaminen (fi)
• French: émergence (fr) f
• Macedonian: појаву́вање n (pojavúvanje), излегу́вање n (izlegúvanje), возникну́вање n (vozniknúvanje)
• Occitan: emergéncia f
• Russian: всплыва́ние (ru) n (vsplyvánije), всплы́тие (ru) n (vsplýtije)
• Serbo-Croatian: emergencija (sh) f
• Spanish: surgimiento m
• Swedish: uppdykande n
• Tocharian B: lalñe
• Turkish: zuhur (tr)

the arising of emergent structure in complex systems

• Arabic: انبثاق m
• Armenian: առաջացում (hy) (aṙaǰacʿum)
• Bulgarian: поява (bg) f (pojava)
• Catalan: propietats emergents f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 突現／突现 (thé-hiān)

  Mandarin: 湧現／涌现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 出現／出现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 突現／突现 (tūxiàn)

• Czech: emergence (cs) f
• Dutch: emergentie f
• Finnish: emergenssi (fi)
• French: émergence (fr) f
• German: Emergenz (de) f
• Italian: emergenza (it) f
• Japanese: 創発 (そうはつ, sōhatsu)
• Macedonian: по́јава f (pójava)
• Norwegian: emergens
• Polish: emergencja f
• Portuguese: emergência (pt) f
• Russian: появле́ние (ru) n (pojavlénije), возникнове́ние (ru) n (vozniknovénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: emergencija (sh) f
• Slovak: emergencia
• Spanish: emergencia (es) f
• Swedish: emergens (sv) c
• Turkish: belirme (tr)

See also

• eclosion

References

• “emergence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.