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Emerging vs Emergent - What's the difference?

emerging | emergent |

As adjectives the difference between emerging and emergent

is that emerging is becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising while emergent is arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency.

As nouns the difference between emerging and emergent

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

As a verb emerging

is present participle of lang=en.

emerging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • emergence
  • * 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
    • We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district

    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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