emergent
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See also: émergent
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒənt/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒənt/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənt
Adjective[edit]
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.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.
- 1987, Navy Medicine, page 8:
- Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.
- 2001, Christopher Hillyer; Krista L. Hillyer; Frank Strobl; Leigh Jefferies; Leslie Silberstein, Handbook of Transfusion Medicine, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 206:
- Bleeding manifestations in chronic DIC are more subacute than in acute DIC, but may become emergent as DIC progresses.
- 2017, A. Joseph Layon; Andrea Gabrielli; Mihae Yu; Kenneth E. Wood, Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:
- As a rule, esophageal disorders become emergent when the airway is compromised either by the initial insult or by a high risk of aspiration.
- 2019, Walter R. Frontera; Joel A. DeLisa; Bruce M. Gans; Lawrence R. Robinson, DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 1987, Navy Medicine, page 8:
- (botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
- (botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
- (video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- 2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (page 126)
- 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)
- (philosophy, sciences) Having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
- 2008, David J. Chalmers, “Strong and Weak Emergence”, in Philip Clayton; Paul Davies, editor, The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion, :
- 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 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 unexpected given the principles governing the low-level domain.
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Translations[edit]
(botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
Having leaves and flowers above the water.
Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency.
Noun[edit]
emergent (plural emergents)
- (botany) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.
References[edit]
- emergent at OneLook Dictionary Search
- emergent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
emergent (strong nominative masculine singular emergenter, not comparable)
Declension[edit]
Positive forms of emergent (uncomparable)
Further reading[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
ēmergent
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French émergent, from Latin emergens.
Adjective[edit]
emergent m or n (feminine singular emergentă, masculine plural emergenți, feminine and neuter plural emergente)
Declension[edit]
Declension of emergent
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | emergent | emergentă | emergenți | emergente | ||
definite | emergentul | emergenta | emergenții | emergentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | emergent | emergente | emergenți | emergente | ||
definite | emergentului | emergentei | emergenților | emergentelor |
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