emergent
/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/US/ɪˈmɝd͡ʒənt/
emergent adjective: emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
Adjective
emergent (comparative more emergent, superlative most emergent)
- Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
- Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
- 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 431763, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters
- Constituting an emergency.
- Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.1987, Navy Medicine, page 8
- Bleeding manifestations in chronic DIC are more subacute than in acute DIC, but may become emergent as DIC progresses.2001, Christopher Hillyer, Krista L. Hillyer, Frank Strobl, Leigh Jefferies, Leslie Silberstein, Handbook of Transfusion Medicine, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 206
- Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
- Having leaves and flowers above the water.
- Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- 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.2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, page 126
- That arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
- an emergent property
- 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...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
Noun
emergent (plural emergents)
emergent meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian
emergent in Urdu
- ہنگامی, ناگہانی
emergent in Malayalam
- developing, emerging, rising
- ഉയർന്നുവരുന്ന, ഉദിച്ചുവരുന്ന, ഉദിച്ചുയരുന്ന, ഉണർന്നെഴുന്നേൽക്കുന്ന, വളർന്നുവരുന്ന, വികസിച്ചുവരുന്ന
emergent in Kannada
- ಅಸ್ಥಿತ್ವಕ್ಕೆ ಬರುವುದರ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಕ ಹಂತದ, ಆವಿರ್ಭವಿಸುವ, ಉಂಟಾಗುವ, ತುರ್ತುಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿಯ, ಜರೂರಿನ, ಅನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿತವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ
emergent in Indonesian
- Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
- kemunculan
Examples of emergent in a sentence
- As a rule, esophageal disorders become emergent when the airway is compromised either by the initial insult or by a high risk of aspiration.2017, A. Joseph Layon, Andrea Gabrielli, Mihae Yu, Kenneth E. Wood, Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine, Lippincott Williams...
- 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.2019, Walter R. Frontera, Joel A. DeLisa, Bruce M. Gans, Lawrence R. Robinson, DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles...
Synonyms of emergent
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Antonyms
Forms of emergent
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more emergent |
| superlative | most emergent |
| Noun | |
| plural | emergents |
Origin of emergent
From Latin ēmergēns, present participle of ēmergō. The medical sense is a back-formation from emergency.
Words formed from emergent
Words that rhyme with emergent
- divergent
- assurgent
- resurgent
- convergent
- insurgent
- turgent
- urgent
- abstergent
- detergent
- neurodivergent
- submergent
- surgent
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Questions about emergent
- What does emergent mean?
- Emergent means emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
- What is emergent in Urdu?
- Emergent in Urdu is ہنگامی, ناگہانی. See Emergent meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use emergent in a sentence?
- As a rule, esophageal disorders become emergent when the airway is compromised either by the initial insult or by a high risk of aspiration.
- What part of speech is emergent?
- Emergent can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce emergent?
- Emergent is pronounced /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/ (UK).
Words near emergent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: emergent (page history and authors); emergent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emergent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); emergent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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