Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of emerging.
- noun A superficial outgrowth of plant tissue, such as the prickle of a rose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rising from or out of that which covers or conceals; a coming forth or into view.
- noun In botany, an outgrowth or appendage upon the surface of an organ, as the prickles and glandular hairs of roses.
- noun An emergency; exigency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
rising out of afluid , or coming forth fromenvelopment orconcealment , or of rising into view; suddenuprising orappearance . - noun In particular: the arising of
emergent structure in complex systems.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
- noun the gradual beginning or coming forth
- noun the act of emerging
- noun the becoming visible
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word emergence.
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.
Vinokourov powers his way to win at Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2010
-
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.
Europe's Little Piece of Brazil Brett Forrest 2011
-
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.
Don C. Reed: Boxer vs. Fiorina: Friends and Foes of Stem Cell Research and the Disability Community Don C. Reed 2010
-
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.
-
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.
-
Extrapolating these capabilities suggests the near-term emergence and visibility of self-improving neural networks, "artificial" intelligence, quantum algorithms, quantum computing and super-intelligence.
-
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.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.