emergence
UK/ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns//ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/
emergence noun: the act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
Noun
emergence (countable and uncountable, plural emergences)
- The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
- Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then1986, Brad Johnson, “Coming of Age”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 19
- The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
- An emergency.
- In this dire emergence, the Marquis de Torcy, minister for foreign affairs, offered his services.1790, Charles Hamilton, Transactions During the Reign of Queen Anne
- 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.1812, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 452
- An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising from more than the superficial cells, and from spines in arising from a few layers only.
emergence meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
emergence in Hindi
- emergence
- उद्गम udgam
emergence in Tamil
- தோற்றம், வெளிப்பாடு
emergence in Urdu
- emergence, arising
- ظہور zuhūr
emergence in Bengali
- আবির্ভাব
More languagesFewer languages
- emergence in Telugu
- ఆవిర్భావం, ఆవిర్భావము
- emergence in Malayalam
- ആവിർഭാവം āviṟbhāvaṁ
- emergence in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಾದುರ್ಭಾವ, ಉದಯ, ಹೊರಹೊಮ್ಮಿಕೆ
- emergence in Gujarati
- ઉદભવ
- emergence in Arabic
- انبثاق
Examples of emergence in a sentence
- The development of homological algebra was closely intertwined with the emergence of category theory.
- The often-found stenophagy in local populations of euryphagous species may indicate the emergence of stenophagous forms from euryphagous ones.
- The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension.
Forms of emergence
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Origin of emergence
Borrowed from French émergence. Doublet of emergency. By surface analysis, emerge + -ence.
Words formed from emergence
Words that rhyme with emergence
Questions about emergence
- What does emergence mean?
- Emergence means the act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
- What is emergence in Hindi?
- Emergence in Hindi is उद्गम (udgam). See Emergence meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is emergence?
- Emergence is a noun.
- How do you pronounce emergence?
- Emergence is pronounced /ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of emergence?
- The plural of emergence is emergences.
Words near emergence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: emergence (page history and authors); उद्गम (Hindi) (page history and authors); emergence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ظہور (Urdu) (page history and authors); emergence (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emergence (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ആവിർഭാവം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); emergence (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emergence (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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