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Emergent Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
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emer·gent i-ˈmər-jənt
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: arising unexpectedly
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: calling for prompt action : urgent
emergent danger
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: rising out of or as if out of a fluid
emergent coastal islands
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: rooted in shallow water and having most of its vegetative growth above water
an emergent plant
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: arising as a natural or logical consequence
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: newly formed or prominent
emergent nations
emergent
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: something emergent
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: a tree that rises above the surrounding forest
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: an emergent plant
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Adjective
- acute
- burning
- clamant
- compelling
- critical
- crying
- dire
- exigent
- imperative
- imperious
- importunate
- instant
- necessitous
- pressing
- urgent
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Example Sentences
Adjective since the problem was not seen as emergent, implementation of the expensive solution for it was continually put off
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As an example, think about an emergent threat in space. —Ron Schmelzer, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022 Their medical needs are indisputably significant and emergent… two prospective complainants passed away during the preparation of this complaint. —al, 22 Nov. 2022 Essential health benefits under an individual plan often cover inpatient and outpatient care, prescription drugs, lab tests, preventative care, mental, behavioral, maternal, emergent, and much more. —The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022 About 10% of non-emergent, pre-scheduled procedures at the hospital were delayed this week. —Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022 The fund’s ability to meet emergent needs in poorer and more vulnerable nations also depends on how much loss and damage from climate change there winds up being.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022 This product contains a pre-emergent herbicide that lasts for up to six months. —Chris Mckeown, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022 Singapore may be showing the way, but most countries, unaware of the potential of syn-bio, haven’t put the emergent industry at the top of their policy agendas. —Maxime Courtaux, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022 In this emergent approach, a process of continuous interactive discovery and learning helps align collaborative impact community participants. —Rob Trice, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
Taylor said a pre-emergent isn’t an option in public lands, but that spot treating stands will help keep it in check.
—Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2020 In the spring, apply the pre-emergents for crabgrass, grassburs and other summer grassy annuals about two weeks prior to the average date of your last killing freeze for your part of the state, with a follow-up treatment 90 days later. —Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 6 Sep. 2019 By then the pre-emergent will be gone from the soil. —Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018 Apply a pre-emergent, like Preen, around the bushes to keep down the weeds until mulch is reapplied in late May. Hot temperatures will require a regular watering program and Kentucky rain is never enough. —Janet Miller, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb.
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Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Middle English, from Latin emergent-, emergens, present participle of emergere
First Known Use
Adjective
1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Noun
1620, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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emer·gent i-ˈmər-jənt
: calling for prompt or urgent action
an emergent condition in a hemophiliac
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adjective
coming into view or notice; issuing.
emerging; rising from a liquid or other surrounding medium.
coming into existence, especially with political independence: the emergent nations of Africa.
arising casually or unexpectedly.
calling for immediate action; urgent.
Evolution. displaying emergence.
noun
Ecology. an aquatic plant having its stem, leaves, etc.
, extending above the surface of the water.
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Origin of emergent
1350–1400; Middle English (<Middle French ) <Latin ēmergent- (stem ofēmergēns) arising out of, present participle of ēmergere to emerge
OTHER WORDS FROM emergent
e·mer·gent·ly, adverbe·mer·gent·ness, nounnon·e·mer·gent, adjectivere·e·mer·gent, adjective
un·e·mer·gent, adjective
Words nearby emergent
emergency boat, emergency brake, emergency medical technician, emergency medicine, emergency room, emergent, emergent evolution, emergent norm, emergicenter, emerging, emerging market
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Words related to emergent
appearing, budding, coming, developing, efflorescent, emanant, emanating, outgoing, rising
How to use emergent in a sentence
Throughout the year, with cases staying stubbornly high, doctors warned about the consequences of non-Covid-19 patients were postponing care for chronic or emergent conditions.
Flattening the curve worked — until it didn’t|Dylan Scott|December 31, 2020|Vox
Readily available digital technologies can be used to provide local and remote computing power, enable information retrieval and analysis, and disseminate emergent knowledge.
Digital Technologies Will Help Build Resilient Communities After the Coronavirus Pandemic|Yolande E. Chan|September 30, 2020|Singularity Hub
In this approach, quantum mechanics is emergent from a deterministic hidden-variables model which acknowledges that everything in the universe is connected with everything else.
Your Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics - Facts So Romantic|Sabine Hossenfelder|September 3, 2020|Nautilus
Names like that emerge in the wave of secondary scholarship reacting to a new idea, and emergent names aren’t always bad.
Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Laura Ball|September 2, 2020|Nautilus
To that end, the call to Crusades was possibly an intentional measure taken by the Pope with the aim to politically unite the Eastern Orthodox church with the emergent Catholic church of Europe.
History of the Crusades: Origins, Politics, and Crusaders|Dattatreya Mandal|March 23, 2020|Realm of History
Emergent procedures provide their benefit right away and have the awesome potential to rescue a patient from the brink of death.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Risky Heart Surgery|Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We Could Be King is, of course, part of a larger emergent genre, that of the high school football hagiography.
Two New Films Preach Our Nation’s Corrosive Gridiron Gospel|Steve Almond|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As with any emergent technology where an action is involved, the brand becomes the verb.
The Zen of Yo|Dale Eisinger|August 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her latest book is The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies and Islam in the Middle East.
IVF for Just $300 Could Be a Reality Soon|Randi Hutter Epstein|August 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In his new book, Present Shock, the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff takes a stab at describing an emergent cultural phenomenon.
Not Much New in Douglas Rushkoff’s Reading of the Future|Jacob Silverman|March 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Britain is an emergent mass of land rising from a submarine platform that attaches it to the Continent of Europe.
The Cornwall Coast|Arthur L. Salmon
She was to act in the same manner if emergent cases required a prompt decision.
The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete|Friedrich Schiller
Notopodia reduced to small lobes at base of neuropodia above, these lobes smooth, bearing no emergent setae in the type.
Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11. No. 1.|Various
So the burden of national crises is squarely upon the dominant classes who fight so foolishly against the emergent ones.
A Preface to Politics|Walter Lippmann
What if diabolic shapes lurked there, ready to become stealthily emergent?
The History of Sir Richard Calmady|Lucas Malet
British Dictionary definitions for emergent
emergent
/ (ɪˈmɜːdʒənt) /
adjective
coming into being or noticean emergent political structure
(of a nation) recently independent
noun
an aquatic plant with stem and leaves above the water
Derived forms of emergent
emergently, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co.
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Scientific definitions for emergent
emergent
[ ĭ-mûr′jənt ]
Rooted below a body of water or in an area that is periodically submerged but extending above the water level. Used of aquatic plants such as cattails, rushes, or cord grass.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Welcome to the era of emergence
In systems theory, emergence refers to the presence of any system of special properties that are not inherent in its elements (both individually and in their sum). Elizabeth Comstock, vice chairman of General Electric, talks about how emergence affects our lives and work, and what information technology has to do with it.
The speed of information movement increases, and we move faster after it.
More and more people are going online (more than 2.3 billion in 2016-2017 alone), and the result is a fundamental and spontaneous restructuring of our collective behavior. The top layer of our evolving digital nervous system on a planetary scale has absorbed the eternal factors of change - human needs, politics, geography and culture - and created new schemes and patterns based on them. Each of us, especially those who run companies, needs a new frame of reference. nine0005
An important part of this coordinate system is emergence, the principle of self-organization, which explains the development of the complex from the simple and the emergence of order from chaos.
Emergence explains complex phenomena in various fields such as thermodynamics, biology, and digital technology. This concept is used to explain the principles of urban development and why some institutions function well in the long term, while others disappear. This is the basic principle behind the complex collective behavior of natural systems, which partly explains how computers achieve their useful complexity despite the fact that their work is based on a few simple processes.
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We live in an era that I call the "Age of Emergence."
This time is characterized by the rapid decline of traditional institutions, despite the fact that their replacement has not yet taken shape. We live in a chaotic, sometimes disturbing and uncertain space between the old and the new.
If we successfully pass this period, we may find ourselves in the historical equivalent of a moment in the creative process when chaos gives way to order and a new pattern, solution, or structure becomes apparent. nine0005
By adopting and supporting emergent systems in business, politics, and technology, we will be able to unleash human potential to a greater extent than ever before in history, and achieve benefits never before possible.
I will not claim that these are purely my ideas. I synthesized them from common themes and views found in the work of other specialists in various fields and industries, adding my own conclusions to them.
In fact, in this new age, it is especially important to develop the ability for such a synthesis of individual points of view, data sets and conclusions. The concept of the "Age of Emergence" appeared in my thinking just as spontaneously and unexpectedly as the phenomenon it explains. nine0005
Two sides of emergence
Emergence, as I call it, has two key aspects.
The first is that we are currently dealing with a huge number of emergent systems and technologies. There is not a single area of human activity that is not now at a crossroads. Each of them has many options for future development, represented by new discoveries, business models or inventions. nine0005
The second aspect of emergence is stranger and better describes our historical reality. An emergent system, as stated above, is a system in which order is born out of chaos. It is also a system, the power and structure of which is created by a network organization, and not determined by a hierarchy from above.
The individual components of any emergent system operate on the basis of relatively simple rules, but when they interact with each other en masse, they can develop into complex adaptive structures. nine0005
The countless individual neurons that connect in the human brain, the many birds in a flock, the individual ants in a colony, and the rows of electrical circuits inside a computer are all examples of simple objects working together to create something more than the sum of the parts.
In the business world, emergence explains why some tech start-ups suddenly get super-large market valuations and expand their functionality incredibly quickly. It's not about the app or site that creates value, but about the collective behavior of the people who use it. nine0005
By the end of 2016, the number of Facebook users has grown so much that it is no longer considered just a social network. With more than 2 billion users, the company has become a de facto political organizer, a major (albeit highly problematic) source of information, a global video distribution platform, a marketplace for goods, and even jobs.
The versatility of Facebook relies on the size of this network. Once a system that is capable of reproducing emergent behavior grows to a certain extent, applying the same rules that governed its operation before begins to lead to very different and sometimes useful results. nine0005
A classic example in nature is an anthill. As noted biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, the social behavior of ants is the most difficult after humans. At the same time, these social structures arise as a result of simple behavior. A colony in which ants track and redraw the hormonal traces left by other individuals during their movement, creates anthills, develops an effective form of using all available food supplies, learns to protect their homes and territory, migrate and survive in extreme conditions. Some ants do not obey the rules, but when the population grows to a certain size, its collective intelligence and power become a commanding force of a much higher order.
If we talk about ants, then the more of them, the smarter they are. The emergent mind has allowed them to survive virtually unchanged for the past 9 years.0 million years.
But here's what's weird. We understand how emergent systems work in nature only because we first noticed that similar principles make our computers smart. As Steven Johnson writes in his book Emergence, the discovery of the properties of emergence occurred at the intersection of the ideas of Alan Turing, the founding father of modern computing, and Ilya Prigogine, the pioneering chemist. Digital systems are also emergent systems by structure.
This means that as we move our information, money, goods, and services through digital systems, those systems are more likely to have beneficial emergence. nine0005
Residents of Europe and North America may consider that such a collective reorganization around the flow of digital information has already occurred to them. But this is a misperception caused by the high visibility of the industries that were the first to go digital — music, finance, and journalism.
In reality, the digital transformation has only just begun. According to the McKinsey consulting agency, 82% of US businesses have not fully realized the potential of digital technologies. Some of our largest industries (such as manufacturing and healthcare) are actually the least digitized. The potential for digital-driven growth is even greater in developing countries. nine0005
The scale of the digital transformation we are about to experience is staggering. The number of Internet users is projected to rise from the current 3.6 billion to 5.8 billion over the next year and a half, with mobile devices accounting for most of this increase. In other words, 1/3 of the world's population will go online for the first time in the next 18-24 months. Add to that the estimated 50 billion machines that will be constantly communicating with each other over the same network by 2020. nine0005
On the business side, the environment created by this large-scale shift will allow the most valuable companies to lead the reorganization of existing assets and experiences built around the flow of digital information indefinitely.
Two of Silicon Valley's most successful startups, Uber (worth $62 billion at the time of writing) and AirBnB (worth $25 billion) are just such companies. None of them actually produce the assets they sell, but each of these companies has created a new flow of information that has allowed individual agents (people with smartphones) to respond in new ways to the location of these assets in real time. The interaction of users en masse has led to the emergence of new types of behavior and new markets based on these types. nine0005
It's like the ants have a new set of pheromone commands, or like the brain cells have developed a new way of signaling. Emergent systems are extremely sensitive to the slightest change in the original operating conditions. The reconfiguration of these conditions will lead to the spontaneous appearance of new structures.
If you know what these structures will look like or, even better, if you can create and shape the disruptive forces that will define them, you will gain an invaluable strategic advantage.
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When it comes to ubiquitous and more easily understood assets like cars and real estate, startups will have this advantage. But for heavy and specialized industries, it is extremely important to possess not only specific specialized tangible assets, but also in-depth knowledge of their production and operation.
Acceleration and (re)distribution
According to the World Economic Forum, the technological advances of the past few decades have lifted half of the world's population out of poverty. nine0005
This is an extremely rapid change, which we also see in real time. It has positive results, but at the same time it increases the level of anxiety in society. Increased migration of people and the escape of the population from poverty with the help of capital can also have unpredictable and obscure consequences, like BREXIT and recent US election results. In a bizarre combination of motives, the positive and negative impulses of life in the Age of Emergence are reflected.
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On the one hand, people seem to want to get rid of the government bureaucracy, which for the most part is unable to keep up with the times. On the other hand, there is a reactionary desire to separate from the rapidly developing global economy, which often also separates people from familiar values and institutions, even if they do not want to or do not realize it.
We have already gone through similar periods of instability caused by information incentives, although not on the scale and at the speed that we have seen in the last two or three decades. The sudden return of interest in ancient literature and its translations, as well as the powerful flow of information associated with them from the monasteries of Europe, led to the onset of the Renaissance. In the 19th century, the world economy spontaneously built itself around the new flows of information generated by the widespread use of printed literature and the ability to transmit data at the speed of ships and trains, as well as by telegraph.
The results of these processes were the transition from monarchy to democracy, which took almost a century, the greater recognition of the rights of women and minorities, the elimination of the global slave trade and the technological revolution. nine0005
The Internet of Things (GE's terminology for the Industrial Internet) is the printing press of our generation. This technology weaves a stream of digital information into the material world and promises to endow this material world with the same adaptive emergent functions that we see in ants, neurons, and digital systems.
Some believe that the growing complexity of connected machines is the beginning of a threat that will manifest itself in the future. I prefer to see it not as a threat, but as an opportunity for learning. Our expanded global nervous system is growing and evolving, and we are developing new relationships with it. nine0005
As with any new relationship, we have a choice. We can develop them or slow down this process.
The best choice in this situation - one that can free us from hard labor and poverty in the future - is to develop, move forward, innovate with digital systems and explore previously unfamiliar areas. This prospect may be daunting, but it holds enormous potential.
EMERGENCY - What is EMERGENCY?
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The word emergent in English letters (transliteration) - emerdzhentnyi
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Emergent
EMERGENCY Arising suddenly. E. evolution is a philosophical hypothesis that considers development as a spasmodic process in which the emergence of new, higher qualities is due to supernatural ...
nine0155 Zherebilo T.V. Terms and concepts of linguistics: General linguistics. Sociolinguistics: Dictionary-reference book. - 2011
Emergent evolution
EMERGENCY EVOLUTION - a metaphysical concept, according to which things arise from the basis of the world, consisting of "points" of space-time, and through emergent (from Latin emergere - to arise) .
Philosophical Encyclopedia nine0159..
EMERGENCY EVOLUTION (from lat. emergo - to arise) - the doctrine of the evolution of the living as the sum of two processes: 1) the transformation of previous properties (in Darwinism ...
Philosophical EncyclopediaEMERGENT EVOLUTION (emergent evolution) (eng. emergent - suddenly arising, from lat. emergo - appear, arise) - a concept that considers development as a spasmodic process, at which the emergence of new ...
Philosophical EncyclopediaEmergent properties
EMERGENT PROPERTIES This concept was formulated by T. Parsons (Parsons, 1937) as part of his analysis of social systems. There are three related ideas about emergent properties.
Sociological Dictionary.- 2008
Emergent properties - system integrity properties, i.e. those that are not inherent in its constituent elements, considered separately, outside the system. nine0005 slovar-lopatnikov.ru
EMERGENT PROPERTIES [emergent properties] - properties of the integrity of the system, that is, not inherent in its constituent elements, considered separately, outside the system.
Lopatnikov. — 2003EMERGENT PROPERTIES EMERGENT PROPERTIES emergent characteristics, new, unique properties of an ecosystem resulting from the synergistic interaction of its components. nine0005 Ecological dictionary
EMERGENT PROPERTIES emergent characteristics, new, unique properties of an ecosystem resulting from the synergistic interaction of its components.
Ecological dictionary
EMERGENT EVOLUTIONISM
EMERGENT EVOLUTIONISM - a philosophical concept that explains the structure and evolution of the world on the basis of the teleological principle of development. The main representatives are K.L. Morgan, S. Alexander, Whitehead…
Modern Western philosophy. - 1998THEORY OF EMERGENT NORM (NORMS FORMATION)
THEORY OF EMERGENT NORM (NORMAL FORMATION) (from the English emergence - the emergence, the emergence of a new one) - a theory for explaining collective behavior, which manifests itself, for example, in a crowd of people unfamiliar to each other.
Russian Sociological EncyclopediaEVOLUTION EMERGENCY
EVOLUTION EMERGENT idealistic concept that interprets organic evolution as a process of abrupt emergence of qualitatively new levels of existence.
