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emergent

See also: émergent

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Etymology edit

See emerge, emergency.

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Adjective edit

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.
    • 1763, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters:
      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
  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.

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Noun edit

emergent (plural emergents)

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

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German edit

Pronunciation edit

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

emergent (strong nominative masculine singular emergenter, not comparable)

  1. emergent

Declension edit

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 edit

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

Latin edit

Verb edit

ēmergent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēmergō

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French émergent, from Latin emergens.

Adjective edit

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

  1. emergent

Declension edit

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
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