Adjective

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Emerging; just coming into existence.

India has a nascent space industry.

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, year= c1624 , year_published= 1631 , author= , by= , title= Vigilius Dormitans, Romes seer overseene: Or a treatise of the fift generall Councell held at Constantinople, anno 553 under Justininan the Emperour, in the time of pope Vigilius , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=nsREAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA186 , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Robert Mylebourne , location= , editor= , volume= , page= 186 , passage= In the first the Pope was but Antichrist nascent ; In the second Antichrist crescent; In the third Antichrist regnant; }}

(mathematics, obsolete) Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.

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, year= 1706 , year_published= 1919 , author= Florian Cajori, PhD. , by= , title= A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain, from Newton to Woodhouse , url= , original= Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= The Open Court Publishing Company , location= Chicago and London , editor= , volume= , page= 43 , passage= These Fluxions are in the first Ratio of their Nascent Augments. }}

Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.

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, year= 1742 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Reward and Punishment in the Jewish Dispensation. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=cYBOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA222 , original= , chapter= , section = , issue = 1 , isbn= , edition= second , publisher= Fletcher Gyles , location= London , editor= , volume= 2 , page= 222 , passage= For, as we have shewn, the original Use of it was to support nascent HeroWorship. }}

(chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.

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, year= 1800 , year_published= 1839 , author= , by= , title= The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and its Respiration. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=0psEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA250 , original= , chapter= Additional Observations and Experiments on the Respiration of Nitrous Oxide , section = Of the Changes Effected in Nitrous Oxide, and Other Gases, by the Respiration of Animals , issue = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Smith, Elder and Company , location= London , editor= John Davy , volume= 3 , page= 250 , passage= There are no reasons for supposing that any of the residual atmospheric oxygen is immediately combined with fixed or nascent hydrogen, or hydrocarbonate, in the venous blood at 98°, by slow combustion, and consequently none for supposing that water is immediately formed in respiration. }}

Adjective

(en-adj)

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

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Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.