Commencement vs Emergence - What's the difference?
commencement | emergence | Related terms |
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
:: Yet from the commencement of mining there have been unnoble proprietors of mines, who belonged to the class of merchants.
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.
The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.
In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
Commencement is a related term of emergence.
As nouns the difference between commencement and emergence
is that commencement is the first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start while emergence is emergence.commencement
English
Noun
(en noun)- The time of Henry VII ... nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history. -allam.
- 1800 , William Took, View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second