Adjective

(en adjective)

that buds, grows or expands; developing

Adjective

(-)

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. }}