Emergent vs Develope - What's the difference?

emergent | develope |

As an adjective emergent

is arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency.

As a noun emergent

is a plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.

As a verb develope is

an archaic spelling of lang=en.

emergent

English

(emergence)

Adjective

(en adjective)

(lb) Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency.

* 1918 , The Missionary Review of the World , volume 41, page 818:

In all these great and vital things which America has discovered to be emergent necessities,

Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.

(botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.

(botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.

(video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.

* 2008 , Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (page 126)

In short, emergent games are ones that allow a huge range of possibilities and don't dictate a strict, linear flow of events. A strategy game is emergent because so many units can interact and have some effect on each other.

Derived terms

* emergent evolution * emergently

Noun

(en noun)

(botany) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.

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develope

English

Verb

(develop)

* Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke

You see that I have said what has been said, on a supposition, that, however obscure theology may be, the Christian religion is extremely plain, and requires no great learning, nor deep meditation to develope it.