Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of emerging.
- n. A superficial outgrowth of plant tissue, such as the prickle of a rose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of rising from or out of that which covers or conceals; a coming forth or into view.
- n. In botany, an outgrowth or appendage upon the surface of an organ, as the prickles and glandular hairs of roses.
- n. An emergency; exigency.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.
- n. In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
- n. the gradual beginning or coming forth
- n. the act of emerging
- n. the becoming visible
Examples
“I am pretty convinced that this is what we call emergence of resistance, meaning that it was not transmission," said Johns Hopkins Hospital Dr. Trish Peri.”
“Vinokourov's re-emergence is a major boost for Astana as it tries to lead Contador to his third Tour de France title.”
“Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk's run to the quarterfinals of the Champions League has been described as the emergence of a rising power and a triumph for its billionaire owner Rinat Akhmetov.”
The Wall Street Journal: Ukraine's Shakhtar Has a Brazilian Flair
“DONETSK, Ukraine—Shakhtar Donetsk's run to the quarterfinals of the Champions League has been described as the emergence of a rising power in European football, a triumph for its billionaire owner Rinat Akhmetov and the biggest surprise in this tournament's recent history.”
“In the report, which analyzes the forces commoditizing enterprise storage, authors George Gilbert and Juergen Urbanski write that leading storage vendors are planning their innovation around a 3-year time frame, expecting adoption of new storage technologies to coincide with emergence from the current recession.”
“With the FDA's long awaited approval of the Geron human trials for embryonic stem cell research, the biomedical industry is on the verge of major growth, pivotal to California's emergence from the world-wide recession.”
“How would you explain the ice age and emergence from the ice age without stimulation by evil capitalist.”
“Extrapolating these capabilities suggests the near-term emergence and visibility of self-improving neural networks, "artificial" intelligence, quantum algorithms, quantum computing and super-intelligence.”
The Huffington Post: DK Matai: The Rise of The Bio-Info-Nano Singularity
“I'm admitting to a sexual hang-up I believed to have been caused by an inconveniently-timed emergence from the latency period and the shock resulting from the sight of Mrs Fulmer slipping off her high heels under her desk.”
“This, taken together with its emergence from a nominally democratic matrix, make it hard to see coming and easy to blunt analogies.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘emergence’.
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Mirrored Vowels
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• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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arnon's Words
treatise, enthrall, nimble, hinder, serene, transhumanism, meliorism, denote, apropos, equivalence, valence, orthogonal and 156 more...
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science
mitochondrion, wolfram, alkali, argon, bioluminescence, animalia, dendrite, tesseract, emergence, chlorophyll, valence, chroma and 4 more...
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sundress's Words
invariant, metadata, emergence, recursion, chaos, countability, portmanteau, wobbly, cisgender, hypoxia, epicene, iffy
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carlc's Words
lexicon, tessalate, praxis, relevance, systems thinking, relationship, space, resonate, flow, emergence, autopoeisis, cause and 17 more...
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thesis
as a note; could include everything
informé, emergence, infoscape, operation, modus operandi, generative
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