emergence

See also: émergence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French émergence. Doublet of emergency. By surface analysis, emerge +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/, /iˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/, /iˈmɝ.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒəns

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.
   • 1986, Brad Johnson, “Coming of Age”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 19:

     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 then

   1. The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
2. (obsolete) An emergency.
   • 1790, Charles Hamilton, Transactions During the Reign of Queen Anne:

     In this dire emergence, the Marquis de Torcy, minister for foreign affairs, offered his services.

   • 1812, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 452:

     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.

3. (botany) 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.

Derived terms

• coemergence
• postemergence
• preemergence
• reemergence, re-emergence

Related terms

• emerge
• emergent

Translations

the act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view

• Bulgarian: изплуване n (izpluvane), появяване n (pojavjavane)
• Catalan: emergència (ca) f
• Czech: vynoření n, vznik (cs) m
• Dutch: opkomst (nl)
• Finnish: ilmaantuminen (fi), esille tuleminen, ilmestyminen (fi), pilkahtaminen (fi)
• French: émergence (fr) f
• Latin: ēmergentia f
• Macedonian: појаву́вање n (pojavúvanje), излегу́вање n (izlegúvanje), возникну́вање n (vozniknúvanje)
• Occitan: emergéncia f
• Russian: всплыва́ние (ru) n (vsplyvánije), всплы́тие (ru) n (vsplýtije)
• Serbo-Croatian: emergencija (sh) f
• Spanish: surgimiento m, emersión f
• Swedish: uppdykande n
• Tocharian B: lalñe
• Turkish: zuhur (tr)

the arising of emergent structure in complex systems

• Arabic: انبثاق m
• Armenian: առաջացում (hy) (aṙaǰacʻum)
• Bulgarian: поява (bg) f (pojava)
• Catalan: propietats emergents f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 突現 / 突现 (thé-hiān)

  Mandarin: 湧現 / 涌现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 出現 / 出现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 突現 / 突现 (tūxiàn)

• Czech: emergence (cs) f
• Dutch: emergentie f
• Finnish: emergenssi (fi)
• French: émergence (fr) f
• German: Emergenz (de) f
• Italian: emergenza (it) f
• Japanese: 創発 (そうはつ, sōhatsu)
• Macedonian: по́јава f (pójava)
• Norwegian: emergens
• Polish: emergencja f
• Portuguese: emergência (pt) f
• Russian: появле́ние (ru) n (pojavlénije), возникнове́ние (ru) n (vozniknovénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: emergencija (sh) f
• Slovak: emergencia
• Spanish: emergencia (es) f, emersión f
• Swedish: emergens (sv) c
• Turkish: belirme (tr)

See also

• eclosion

References

• “emergence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.