emergent

See also: émergent

English

Etymology

See emerge, emergency.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• emergent counting
• emergent literacy
• emergently

 

Translations

Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.

• French: émergent (fr)
• Indonesian: kemunculan (id)

(botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.

Having leaves and flowers above the water.

Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.

Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency.

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

Noun

emergent (plural emergents)

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

References

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

German

Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

emergent (strong nominative masculine singular emergenter, not comparable)

1. emergent

Declension

Positive forms of emergent (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist emergent	sie ist emergent	es ist emergent	sie sind emergent
strong declension (without article)	nominative	emergenter	emergente	emergentes	emergente
	genitive	emergenten	emergenter	emergenten	emergenter
	dative	emergentem	emergenter	emergentem	emergenten
	accusative	emergenten	emergente	emergentes	emergente
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der emergente	die emergente	das emergente	die emergenten
	genitive	des emergenten	der emergenten	des emergenten	der emergenten
	dative	dem emergenten	der emergenten	dem emergenten	den emergenten
	accusative	den emergenten	die emergente	das emergente	die emergenten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein emergenter	eine emergente	ein emergentes	(keine) emergenten
	genitive	eines emergenten	einer emergenten	eines emergenten	(keiner) emergenten
	dative	einem emergenten	einer emergenten	einem emergenten	(keinen) emergenten
	accusative	einen emergenten	eine emergente	ein emergentes	(keine) emergenten

Further reading

• “emergent” in Duden online
• “emergent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Verb

ēmergent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēmergō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French émergent, from Latin emergens.

Adjective

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

1. emergent

Declension

Declension of emergent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	emergent		emergentă	emergenți	emergente
	definite	emergentul		emergenta	emergenții	emergentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	emergent		emergente	emergenți	emergente
	definite	emergentului		emergentei	emergenților	emergentelor