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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emergent
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
property
▪ But others are totally unexpected-another example of emergent properties.
▪ Though temperature is an emergent property, it can be measured precisely, confidently, and predictably.
▪ The response to this is that intentionality and consciousness are emergent properties of physical systems.
▪ Also, like most emergent properties, wear is communication.
▪ Even the computer biomorphs, with their nine genes, had emergent properties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She is widely perceived as the emergent leader of the movement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A colony of ants on the move from one nest site to another exhibits the Kafkaesque underside of emergent control.
▪ At the centre of this emergent mode of rationality was the negotiation of long-term employment tenure in the immediate post-war years.
▪ Constructs are usually named by their emergent pole.
▪ Like most emergent phenomena, wear is liable to self-reinforce.
▪ Repetitive, patterned texts give emergent readers extra support while they are reading.
▪ The latter constitute an emergent postmodern transformation based on the resurgent realities of body, nature, and place.
▪ The plant, growing erect, will eventually develop emergent leaves.
▪ There has been a tendency for newspapers to represent both existing political parties and emergent ones.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emergent

Emergent \E*mer"gent\, a. [L. emergens, p. pr. of emergere.]

  1. Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.

    The mountains huge appear emergent.
    --Milton.

  2. Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.

    Protection granted in emergent danger.
    --Burke.

    Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence. -- E*mer"gent*ly, adv. -- E*mer"gent*ness, n. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emergent

late 14c., "rising from what surrounds it, coming into view," from Latin emergentem (nominative emergens), present participle of emergere "to rise out or up" (see emerge).

Wiktionary
emergent

a. 1 (lb en dated) Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency. 2 emerge; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new. 3 (context botany English) tall than the surrounding vegetation. 4 (context botany of a water-dwelling plant English) Having leaves and flowers above the water. 5 (context video games English) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline. n. (context botany English) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaf and flowers grow up and above the water.

WordNet
emergent

adj. coming into existence; "a nascent republic" [syn: emerging, nascent]

Wikipedia
Emergent

Emergent may refer to:

  • Emergent (album), a 2003 album by Gordhhg
  • Emergent (software), Neural Simulation Software
  • Emergent BioSolutions, a multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Emergent (software)

Emergent (formerly PDP++) is neural simulation software that is primarily intended for creating models of the brain and cognitive processes. Development initially began in 1995 at Carnegie Mellon University, and , continues at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The 3.x release of the software, which was known as PDP++, is featured in the textbook Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Emergent (album)

Emergent is the second album by American progressive rock band Gordian Knot, and is the only album apart from Focus to contain all original members of Cynic.

Usage examples of "emergent".

To consider simplicity and complexity, chaos and emergent order, self-similarity in complex adaptive systems, Kauffrnan models and much else.

Micro-men the heavy emergent Mark 6s with their clawed and jointed arms and monocular cephalic turrets, the rest lower-numbered Marks of the sort that merely made Richard-the-Third humps under clothing.

Thus, the real dissimilarity between the emergent status of fluidity in water and the emergent status of consciousness from the brain is that the former is a low-level, or primitive, emergence, while the latter is a high-level, or complex, emergence.

Ego means the less of Eco, and vice versawith no way whatsoever to consolidate their equally important claims in a new and emergent and integrative growth.

Bay Area psychedelia collided headlong with the emergent world of computerized virtual reality, was like a Kiwanis Club gig compared to this astonishing do.

After giving the question due consideration, I briefed him on the Information Revolution, giving emphasis to the creation of the news channels, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and so forth, and the subsequent evolution of the television journalist from reporter to an interface through which the events of history were filtered, and the emergent punditocracy whose neatly packaged opinions were bleated out non-stop until they produced a litany of responses from the viewers that echoed these opinions with sheeplike unanimity.

Cyan Gem, the middle sisters, had earned honors in science at Newmarch University and won research assistantships at the core-star observatory, studying the newly emergent planetics.

Not only is modernity not devoid of the Goddess, her Goodness and Agape and Compassion are written all over it, with its radically new and emergent stance of worldcentric pluralism, universal benevolence, and multicultural tolerance, something that no horticultural society could even conceive, let alone implement.

Over the years he came to resemble a high hill covered in grass and shrubs and stunted trees, with here and there a portion of scale showing through, and the colossal head entirely emergent, unclothed by vegetation, engaging everything that passed before him with huge, slit-pupiled golden eyes, exerting a malefic influence over the events that flowed around him, twisting them into shapes that conformed to the cruel designs his discarnate intellect delighted in the weaving of and profited his vengeful will.

In self-transcendence, however, the emergent and senior level exerts omega pull on junior dimensions, something that neither they themselves, nor their morphically resonating partners, could do alone.

And, as we will see throughout this book, same-level relational exchange does not mean that the micro exchanges with a pregiven macro: they co-create each other in emergent worldspaces.

Diem seemed to be doing everything possible to disguise this visit from the locals, just as the Emergents should expect.

Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

Calling on inherited archetypes and old mythological motifs is of little help in this new, emergent, and unprecedented endeavor.

Nevertheless, the perceptions of those attributes are regarded as emergent properties of complex configurations of atoms that exist independently of our sensory perceptions.