English

Adjective

1. emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
2. occurring unexpectedly or of an urgent nature.

Derived terms

• emergent evolution Theory that some aspects are observable in a high-level view of a complex system but barely deducible from the description of its components.

• Emergent (software), Neural Simulation Software
• Emergent (album), a 2003 album by Gordian Knot
• emergent plant, a plant which grows in water but which pierces the surface so that it is partially in air
• emergent evolution, an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities
• emergent viruses, the adaptation of a virus to emerge as a new pathogenic strain with a new attribute in a new field not normally associated with that specific virus
• emergent coastline, a stretch of coast that has been exposed by the sea due to a relative fall in sea levels
• emergent algorithm, a self-stabilizing predictable algorithm
• emergent curriculum, curriculum planning based on the student’s interests and passions as well as the teacher’s
• emergent gameplay, the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designer's original intent
• emergent strategy, strategies which originate in the interaction of an organization with its environment
• emergent democracy
• emergent organisation
• emergent materialism, a theory which asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense
• Emergent Party, a minor political party in the United Kingdom
• Emergent BioSolutions, a multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
• Emergent Design, a neologism describing a theoretical framework for the implementation of systemic change in education and learning environments
• Emerging church, 21st-century Protestant Christian movement

• induced gravity, sometimes referred to as emergent gravity

See also

• Emergence (disambiguation)