emergent

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1. emergent - Noun

2. emergent - Adjective

3. emergent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

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

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While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States. Lewis M. Branscomb

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The emergent humans were still animals, still bound by natural law. No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to survive. An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool. Stephen Baxter

The concept of an independent "spiritual realm" does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human. Ursula Goodenough

The "reasons” and "causes” why things happen, in other words, aren't fundamental; they are emergent. We need to dig in to the actual history of the universe to see why these concepts have emerged. Sean M. Carroll

We need to anticipate the character of the times, discern embryonic forms emergent or renewed, and clear the path for circumstantial change. David Ben-Gurion

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