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EMERGENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("emergence" is a kind of...):
act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emergence"):
surfacing (emerging to the surface and becoming apparent)
emanation; emission (the act of emitting; causing to flow forth)
Derivation:
emerge (come out into view, as from concealment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of emerging
Synonyms:
emergence; emersion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("emergence" is a kind of...):
appearance (the act of appearing in public view)
Derivation:
emergent (coming into existence)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The becoming visible
Example:
not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins
Synonyms:
egress; emergence; issue
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("emergence" is a kind of...):
beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emergence"):
eruption (the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum)
dissilience (the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe)
Derivation:
emerge (come out into view, as from concealment)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The gradual beginning or coming forth
Example:
figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("emergence" is a kind of...):
beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emergence"):
rise (a growth in strength or number or importance)
Derivation:
emerge (become known or apparent)
Context examples:
To help fight the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, many scientists have been trying to adapt these peptides as potential new drugs.
(Venom of Wasp, Bee Repurposed as Antibiotic Drug, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This allele, which encodes vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 protein, plays a role in the development of the embryonic cardiovascular system before the emergence of lymphatic blood vessels.
(FLT4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
The discovery provides new details about the emergence of large galaxies and the role that dark matter plays in assembling the most massive structures in the universe.
(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)
The topic of the isotopic composition of seawater over geologic time has been much discussed, and this study has added critical data to this debate and to that of the emergence of plate tectonics as we know it today, said Enriqueta Barrera, a program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.
(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)
Having thus, amid a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting them, their consequent enormous growth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Earlier springtime activity and emergence from a dormant winter state can allow insect populations to seek out favorable environments and produce more generations per year, improving their survivability in the face of rapid environmental change.
(Secrets to climate change adaptation uncovered in the European corn borer moth, National Science Foundation)
This body plan has spatial references, or axes, that guide the emergence of tissues and organs: an antero-posterior axis defined by the head at one end and the tail at the other, an orthogonal dorso-ventral axis and a medio-lateral axis, which orientates the arrangement of internal organs like the liver, pancreas or the heart.
(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)
Unexpectedly, while the loss of Tcf7l2 function in the habenula increased nicotine consumption in rats, this change also reduced nicotine-driven blood glucose increases and protected against the emergence of diabetes-associated abnormalities in blood glucose levels.
(Nicotine addiction linked to diabetes through a DNA-regulating gene in animal models, National Institutes of Health)
It was absolutely necessary, therefore, to think of something, and in this emergence recollecting when she had seen him last in Hertfordshire, and feeling curious to know what he would say on the subject of their hasty departure, she observed: How very suddenly you all quitted Netherfield last November, Mr. Darcy!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
We suspect that previous studies have overlooked the emergence of this shallow horizon by averaging data from different models rather than looking at individual models, said co-author Gabriela Negrete-Garcia of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)
