emergente‧mer‧gent /ɪˈmɜːdʒənt $ -ɜːr-/ AWL adjective [only before noun] - She is widely perceived as the emergent leader of the movement.
- A colony of ants on the move from one nest site to another exhibits the Kafkaesque underside of emergent control.
- At the centre of this emergent mode of rationality was the negotiation of long-term employment tenure in the immediate post-war years.
- Constructs are usually named by their emergent pole.
- Like most emergent phenomena, wear is liable to self-reinforce.
- Repetitive, patterned texts give emergent readers extra support while they are reading.
- The latter constitute an emergent postmodern transformation based on the resurgent realities of body, nature, and place.
- The plant, growing erect, will eventually develop emergent leaves.
- There has been a tendency for newspapers to represent both existing political parties and emergent ones.
NOUN► property· But others are totally unexpected-another example of emergent properties.· Though temperature is an emergent property, it can be measured precisely, confidently, and predictably.· The response to this is that intentionality and consciousness are emergent properties of physical systems.· Also, like most emergent properties, wear is communication.· Even the computer biomorphs, with their nine genes, had emergent properties.
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