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Definition of emergent in English: emergentadjective ɪˈməːdʒ(ə)ntəˈmərdʒənt 1In the process of coming into being or becoming prominent. 新兴的,兴起的 the emergent democracies of eastern Europe 东欧的新兴民主国家。 Example sentencesExamples - Too much pressure now could help to derail Indonesia's emergent democracy.
- The article draws on both primary and secondary data to examine the media's role in an emergent democracy.
- The Community responded to the other emergent democracies of Central and Eastern Europe with association agreements and aid.
- While the local media is more than happy to glorify our emergent hip-hop scene they seem a little more troubled when it comes to dealing with a band who manage to balance indie with its supposed antithesis; bubblegum pop.
- Newly emergent communities will employ the tools of democracy to acquire power, and having done so, will preserve democratic institutions that served them so well.
- Most of all, Adam offers an intelligent contribution to recent discussions of emergent democracy - challenging us to imagine a world of flow and ethics.
- It is in this process that an emergent middle class forms ‘off the backs of others.’
- It seems a great shame that there is an almost total absence of awareness of the emergent East Asian music scene, especially that of China, in Europe and America.
- In the case of Bush's second term, the decision of the US electorate will undoubtedly, as it already has, impact negatively on fragile and emergent democracies the world over.
- The sell then, becomes an ideological process, emergent in practices of dramatic performance and socially ritualized behavior.
- Feather morphology is an emergent feature of these processes, plus the assembly mechanism inherent in the follicle.
- The story is created from the emergent creative process of the community as a whole.
- The true reflection of the reality of development for the emergent economies is in the interests of the pressure groups within the WTO and other world bodies.
- During this process, emergent themes were identified.
- I guess in this case, the implicit argument is that the failure - if that's what it is - of Dean's populist revolt should be laid at the feet of the bloggers and the emergent democracy vanguard.
- In this respect, links can be made to the pioneering work of the Organization of American States Commission in developing and strengthening emergent democracies in a precariously unstable region.
- South Korea's government is an emergent democracy, and Seoul - Korea's largest city - is its capital.
- By comparing stages of oral language development to similar stages of writing development, parents may better understand the emergent writing process.
- It is consistent with qualitative research methods that the focus of the study may be further shaped in process by the emergent findings.
- It's quite another to deftly juggle the nuances of presidential behavior in a newly emergent democracy.
Synonyms emerging, beginning, coming out, arising, dawning developing, budding, burgeoning, embryonic, infant, fledgling, nascent, incipient rising, promising, potential, up-and-coming - 1.1Philosophy (of a property) arising as an effect of complex causes and not analysable simply as the sum of their effects.
〔哲〕(特征)突现的,突创的 Example sentencesExamples - Since no single activity is responsible for undesired emergent properties of complex systems, such problems are intractable to our pluralistic political processes.
- Thus, from the beginning, Collins is arguing that consciousness is an emergent property, i.e. a property had by the whole, but not by the parts that compose that whole.
- As he notes, on this construal, emergent properties will include both relational and non-relational properties.
- But it may well be that intelligence and consciousness are emergent properties rather than located in specific centres of the brain.
- However, that allows for the possibility that consciousness, as an emergent property, can take us in a new direction, exhibit behaviours which far exceed the relatively small change which produced it.
2Ecology Of or denoting a plant which is taller than the surrounding vegetation, especially a tall tree in a forest. 〔生态〕(植物,尤指森林中的大树)突出的,露头的 Example sentencesExamples - The forest canopy is largely open, with few emergent trees.
- Main emergent trees are Nothofagus nitida, Drimys winteri, and Eucryphia cordifolia.
- In summer, nesting habitat is small wetlands with emergent vegetation in boreal forests and parklands.
- The canopy is 30-35 m tall, with emergent Agathis atropurpurea on the upper slopes.
- The more mature forest reached a canopy height of 25-30 m, with emergent trees to 40 m.
- 2.1 Of or denoting a water plant with leaves and flowers that appear above the water surface.
(水生植物)露出水面的 Example sentencesExamples - Both male and female help build a floating nest made of plant material and anchored to emergent vegetation.
- Floating, or built up from the bottom, the nest is a dense mat of plant material anchored to emergent vegetation.
- Lowering the water levels in spring stimulated emergent vegetation and raising levels in late summer maintained waterfowl feeding areas.
- Together, the male and female Western Grebe build a floating nest made of heaps of plant material anchored to emergent vegetation in a shallow area of a marsh.
- On the other hand, newly hatched ducklings are very dependent on emerging insects encountered on the water surface or on emergent plants, availability of which may be weather dependent.
noun ɪˈməːdʒ(ə)ntəˈmərdʒənt 1Philosophy An emergent property. 〔哲〕突创特征 knowledge is an emergent of this interactive process Example sentencesExamples - The memories are not of ongoing conditions but of emergents of new conditions willed by the Initiator against the circumstances over which Israel has no control.
2Ecology An emergent tree or other plant. 〔哲〕突创特征 emergents tower above the top canopy Example sentencesExamples - The forest canopy is usually between 15-30 m high, but some trees may be as tall as 35 m, although almost no emergents occur.
- Areas with persistently high water tables generally have Sphagnum spp. as the predominant ground cover, with Eriophorum virginicum L., Juncus acuminatus Michx., and J. effusus as important emergents.
- This community was dominated by the emergents Polygonum hydropiperoides, Lindernia dubia, Penthorum sedoides, Ludwigia palustris, Echinochloa muricata var. muricata, Scirpus validus, Juncus effusus, and Eleocharis smallii.
- The occurrence of radial increases in B. papyrifera and P. strobus, which are often canopy emergents, suggests that it is overall adaptive strategy that is important rather than position (canopy vs. subcanopy) of any individual tree.
- Most vegetation occurs as emergents, or hydrophilic species along the river's edge.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'occurring unexpectedly'): from Latin emergent- 'arising from', from the verb emergere (see emerge). Rhymesconvergent, detergent, divergent, insurgent, resurgent, urgent Definition of emergent in US English: emergentadjectiveəˈmərjəntəˈmərdʒənt 1In the process of coming into being or becoming prominent. 新兴的,兴起的 the emergent democracies of eastern Europe 东欧的新兴民主国家。 Example sentencesExamples - Too much pressure now could help to derail Indonesia's emergent democracy.
- By comparing stages of oral language development to similar stages of writing development, parents may better understand the emergent writing process.
- In the case of Bush's second term, the decision of the US electorate will undoubtedly, as it already has, impact negatively on fragile and emergent democracies the world over.
- It's quite another to deftly juggle the nuances of presidential behavior in a newly emergent democracy.
- It seems a great shame that there is an almost total absence of awareness of the emergent East Asian music scene, especially that of China, in Europe and America.
- The Community responded to the other emergent democracies of Central and Eastern Europe with association agreements and aid.
- South Korea's government is an emergent democracy, and Seoul - Korea's largest city - is its capital.
- During this process, emergent themes were identified.
- Feather morphology is an emergent feature of these processes, plus the assembly mechanism inherent in the follicle.
- The true reflection of the reality of development for the emergent economies is in the interests of the pressure groups within the WTO and other world bodies.
- While the local media is more than happy to glorify our emergent hip-hop scene they seem a little more troubled when it comes to dealing with a band who manage to balance indie with its supposed antithesis; bubblegum pop.
- The sell then, becomes an ideological process, emergent in practices of dramatic performance and socially ritualized behavior.
- I guess in this case, the implicit argument is that the failure - if that's what it is - of Dean's populist revolt should be laid at the feet of the bloggers and the emergent democracy vanguard.
- It is in this process that an emergent middle class forms ‘off the backs of others.’
- Most of all, Adam offers an intelligent contribution to recent discussions of emergent democracy - challenging us to imagine a world of flow and ethics.
- The story is created from the emergent creative process of the community as a whole.
- Newly emergent communities will employ the tools of democracy to acquire power, and having done so, will preserve democratic institutions that served them so well.
- In this respect, links can be made to the pioneering work of the Organization of American States Commission in developing and strengthening emergent democracies in a precariously unstable region.
- The article draws on both primary and secondary data to examine the media's role in an emergent democracy.
- It is consistent with qualitative research methods that the focus of the study may be further shaped in process by the emergent findings.
Synonyms emerging, beginning, coming out, arising, dawning - 1.1Philosophy (of a property) arising as an effect of complex causes and not analyzable simply as the sum of their effects.
〔哲〕(特征)突现的,突创的 one such emergent property is the ability, already described, of an established ecosystem to repel an invading species Example sentencesExamples - However, that allows for the possibility that consciousness, as an emergent property, can take us in a new direction, exhibit behaviours which far exceed the relatively small change which produced it.
- Thus, from the beginning, Collins is arguing that consciousness is an emergent property, i.e. a property had by the whole, but not by the parts that compose that whole.
- But it may well be that intelligence and consciousness are emergent properties rather than located in specific centres of the brain.
- As he notes, on this construal, emergent properties will include both relational and non-relational properties.
- Since no single activity is responsible for undesired emergent properties of complex systems, such problems are intractable to our pluralistic political processes.
2Ecology Of or denoting a plant which is taller than the surrounding vegetation, especially a tall tree in a forest. 〔生态〕(植物,尤指森林中的大树)突出的,露头的 Example sentencesExamples - The forest canopy is largely open, with few emergent trees.
- Main emergent trees are Nothofagus nitida, Drimys winteri, and Eucryphia cordifolia.
- The more mature forest reached a canopy height of 25-30 m, with emergent trees to 40 m.
- The canopy is 30-35 m tall, with emergent Agathis atropurpurea on the upper slopes.
- In summer, nesting habitat is small wetlands with emergent vegetation in boreal forests and parklands.
- 2.1 Of or denoting a water plant with leaves and flowers that appear above the water surface.
(水生植物)露出水面的 Example sentencesExamples - Floating, or built up from the bottom, the nest is a dense mat of plant material anchored to emergent vegetation.
- Both male and female help build a floating nest made of plant material and anchored to emergent vegetation.
- On the other hand, newly hatched ducklings are very dependent on emerging insects encountered on the water surface or on emergent plants, availability of which may be weather dependent.
- Together, the male and female Western Grebe build a floating nest made of heaps of plant material anchored to emergent vegetation in a shallow area of a marsh.
- Lowering the water levels in spring stimulated emergent vegetation and raising levels in late summer maintained waterfowl feeding areas.
nounəˈmərjəntəˈmərdʒənt 1Philosophy An emergent property. 〔哲〕突创特征 Example sentencesExamples - The memories are not of ongoing conditions but of emergents of new conditions willed by the Initiator against the circumstances over which Israel has no control.
2Ecology An emergent tree or other plant. 〔哲〕突创特征 Example sentencesExamples - This community was dominated by the emergents Polygonum hydropiperoides, Lindernia dubia, Penthorum sedoides, Ludwigia palustris, Echinochloa muricata var. muricata, Scirpus validus, Juncus effusus, and Eleocharis smallii.
- The occurrence of radial increases in B. papyrifera and P. strobus, which are often canopy emergents, suggests that it is overall adaptive strategy that is important rather than position (canopy vs. subcanopy) of any individual tree.
- The forest canopy is usually between 15-30 m high, but some trees may be as tall as 35 m, although almost no emergents occur.
- Most vegetation occurs as emergents, or hydrophilic species along the river's edge.
- Areas with persistently high water tables generally have Sphagnum spp. as the predominant ground cover, with Eriophorum virginicum L., Juncus acuminatus Michx., and J. effusus as important emergents.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense ‘occurring unexpectedly’): from Latin emergent- ‘arising from’, from the verb emergere (see emerge). |