Emergent
adjective
Happening or developing quickly and unexpectedly.
The emergent crisis required immediate attention.
Often appears as...
- emergent crisis
- emergent situation
adjective
Rising or coming out from a surrounding liquid, especially a plant in a body of water.
The emergent plants looked beautiful in the pond.
Often appears as...
- emergent plants
- emergent vegetation
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Just starting to exist or be noticed.
The marketing team identified several emergent trends in consumer behavior.
Often appears as...
- emergent trends
- emergent technology
adjective
Happening or developing quickly and unexpectedly.
The emergent crisis required immediate attention.
Often appears as...
- emergent crisis
- emergent situation
adjective
Rising or coming out from a surrounding liquid, especially a plant in a body of water.
The emergent plants looked beautiful in the pond.
Often appears as...
- emergent plants
- emergent vegetation
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Just starting to exist or be noticed.
The marketing team identified several emergent trends in consumer behavior.
Often appears as...
- emergent trends
- emergent technology
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Events
Use 'emergent' when describing events that appear quickly, often surprisingly.
Residents were unprepared for the emergent flooding.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency Implied
'Emergent' often suggests a need for immediate action or attention.
The emergent need for shelter became the team's focus.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'emergent' is neutral; it does not imply good or bad, just that it is sudden.
The CEO discussed the emergent opportunities in the market.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Events
Use 'emergent' when describing events that appear quickly, often surprisingly.
Residents were unprepared for the emergent flooding.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency Implied
'Emergent' often suggests a need for immediate action or attention.
The emergent need for shelter became the team's focus.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'emergent' is neutral; it does not imply good or bad, just that it is sudden.
The CEO discussed the emergent opportunities in the market.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Events
Use 'emergent' when describing events that appear quickly, often surprisingly.
Residents were unprepared for the emergent flooding.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency Implied
'Emergent' often suggests a need for immediate action or attention.
The emergent need for shelter became the team's focus.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'emergent' is neutral; it does not imply good or bad, just that it is sudden.
The CEO discussed the emergent opportunities in the market.
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Video examples
Amazon's climate pledge...
for substantive portions of our operations -- these aren't hobbies, but putting real money into big pieces of our operations -- it was amazing, the amount of companies that started coming out who had an emergent technology here or had a great idea and needed help in getting manufacturing started.
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Txtng is killing...
and now the whole world today the fact of the matter is that it just isn't true and it's easy to think that it is true but in order to see it in another way in order to see that actually texting is a miraculous thing not just energetic but a miraculous thing a kind of emergent
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
newly emergent consciousness we have the technology but we have they yet to be fully integrated so self-control and self-awareness remained rudimentary as the human species I would argue is today it's also axiomatic that infancy is the most dangerous period of life so we are
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Why the @#$ is there so...
A phantom traffic jam is an emergent phenomenon whose behavior takes on a life of its own, greater than the sum of its parts. But in spite of this, we can actually model these jams, even understand the principles that shape them— and we’re closer than you might think
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Katie Mack: Life-altering...
Yeah, no, totally. And you dig down into it and they say, "Well, you know, maybe they're emergent." Maybe it's like, you know, they're sort of real. Like, we live in space, we experience time. But the actual, sort of, fabric of the universe
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How do schools of fish...
become sufficiently complex, and curious to begin studying their own biological origins, not to mention emergence. And what we found in emergent phenomena at vastly different scales is that same remarkable characteristic as the fish
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Does time exist? -...
by the limitations of the way we perceive the universe? We don’t yet know, but maybe that’s the wrong way of thinking about it. Instead of asking if time exists as a fundamental property, maybe it could exist as an emergent one.
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Al Gore: How to make...
There is an emergent form called multistakeholder capitalism, and it is driving a lot of new decisions. For example, in asset management, almost half of all the assets in the world under management
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How do you explain...
It'll turn out to be another emergent phenomenon like traffic jams, like hurricanes, like life, and we'll figure it out. The classical cases of emergence are all cases of emergent behavior,
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The role of disruption...
these emergent technologies provide an unparalleled opportunity to bring this experience of hope a positive story of the oceans future to all of us in a deeply tangible way what if this
Video examples
Amazon's climate pledge...
for substantive portions of our operations -- these aren't hobbies, but putting real money into big pieces of our operations -- it was amazing, the amount of companies that started coming out who had an emergent technology here or had a great idea and needed help in getting manufacturing started.
Video examples
Txtng is killing...
and now the whole world today the fact of the matter is that it just isn't true and it's easy to think that it is true but in order to see it in another way in order to see that actually texting is a miraculous thing not just energetic but a miraculous thing a kind of emergent
Video examples
Tim Flannery: Here on...
newly emergent consciousness we have the technology but we have they yet to be fully integrated so self-control and self-awareness remained rudimentary as the human species I would argue is today it's also axiomatic that infancy is the most dangerous period of life so we are
Video examples
Why the @#$ is there so...
A phantom traffic jam is an emergent phenomenon whose behavior takes on a life of its own, greater than the sum of its parts. But in spite of this, we can actually model these jams, even understand the principles that shape them— and we’re closer than you might think
Video examples
Katie Mack: Life-altering...
Yeah, no, totally. And you dig down into it and they say, "Well, you know, maybe they're emergent." Maybe it's like, you know, they're sort of real. Like, we live in space, we experience time. But the actual, sort of, fabric of the universe
Video examples
How do schools of fish...
become sufficiently complex, and curious to begin studying their own biological origins, not to mention emergence. And what we found in emergent phenomena at vastly different scales is that same remarkable characteristic as the fish
Video examples
Does time exist? -...
by the limitations of the way we perceive the universe? We don’t yet know, but maybe that’s the wrong way of thinking about it. Instead of asking if time exists as a fundamental property, maybe it could exist as an emergent one.
Video examples
Al Gore: How to make...
There is an emergent form called multistakeholder capitalism, and it is driving a lot of new decisions. For example, in asset management, almost half of all the assets in the world under management
Video examples
How do you explain...
It'll turn out to be another emergent phenomenon like traffic jams, like hurricanes, like life, and we'll figure it out. The classical cases of emergence are all cases of emergent behavior,
Video examples
The role of disruption...
these emergent technologies provide an unparalleled opportunity to bring this experience of hope a positive story of the oceans future to all of us in a deeply tangible way what if this
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Gary Wolf
American Journalist
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
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Miguel Nicolelis
Brazilian Scientist
We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.
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William Gibson
American Writer
I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.
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Warren Spector
American Designer
The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
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Iain Banks
Scottish Writer
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Geoff Ryman
Canadian Writer
I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.
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Gregory Stock
American Scientist
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
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David Gross
American Physicist
I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
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Gary Wolf
American Journalist
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
Quote examples
Miguel Nicolelis
Brazilian Scientist
We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.
Quote examples
William Gibson
American Writer
I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.
Quote examples
Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.
Quote examples
Warren Spector
American Designer
The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
Quote examples
Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
Quote examples
Iain Banks
Scottish Writer
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Quote examples
Geoff Ryman
Canadian Writer
I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.
Quote examples
Gregory Stock
American Scientist
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
Quote examples
David Gross
American Physicist
I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
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