emergent

CEFRC1

/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/

adjective

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adjective
Newly appearing or developing.
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adjective
Extra detail
Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.

Examples

Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.
Life is an emergent property of chemistry.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Constituting an emergency.
Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
Taller than the surrounding vegetation.

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an emergent property
Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.
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 43

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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 43
1763, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters
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
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
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.
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
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

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Origin

adjective

From Latin ēmergēns, present participle of ēmergō. The medical sense is a back-formation from emergency.

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