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Emergent vs Multiverse - What's the difference?

emergent | multiverse |

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)
  • (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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    multiverse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 citation , passage=Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse , as one might call it, and not a universe. , page=10 }}
  • *{{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.
  • Our universe is a very small part of the multiverse .

    Derived terms

    * multiversal