Emergent vs Multiverse - What's the difference?
emergent | multiverse |
(lb) Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency.
* 1918 , The Missionary Review of the World , volume 41, page 818:
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)
(botany) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.
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(philosophy) The world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability.
*{{quote-magazine
, year=1895
, date=October
, last=James
, first=William
, authorlink=William James
, title=Is Life Worth Living?
, magazine=International Journal of Ethics
*{{quote-book
, year=1953
, authorlink=Saul Bellow
, title=
, last=Bellow
, first=Saul
, chapter=6
, publisher=Viking Press
, passage=I've never gone through a place like Racine without thinking which house with the rubber-tire swing for kids and piano-practicing inside was like Stiva Lausch's, who had two daughters brought up with every refinement, including piano lessons, and how such little-speaking Odessa-bred sons had gotten on a track like this through the multiverse .}}
(physics, cosmology) The hypothetical group of all the possible universes in existence.
As an adjective emergent
is emerging (in the process of emerging).As a verb emergent
is .As a noun multiverse is
(philosophy) the world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability.emergent
English
(emergence)Adjective
(en adjective)- In all these great and vital things which America has discovered to be emergent necessities,
- 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 * emergentlyNoun
(en noun)multiverse
English
(wikipedia multiverse)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse , as one might call it, and not a universe. , page=10 }}
- Our universe is a very small part of the multiverse .