emergences

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; 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
   1. The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
2. (obsolete) 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
3. 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.