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Emergent adj.

Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light. "The mountains huge appear emergent."

Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent. "Protection granted in emergent danger."

Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Emergent" Quotes from Famous Books

... height as in the last splash. There was sometimes noticed, as seen in Fig. 9, a tendency in the water to flow up past the milk, which, still comparatively unmixed with water, rides triumphant on the top of the emergent column. The greater relative thickness of this column prevents it splitting into drops, and Figs. 10 and 11 show it descending below the surface to form the hollow of Fig. 12, up the sides of which an annular film of milk is carried (Figs. 12 and 13), having been detached from ...

— The Splash of a Drop • A. M. Worthington

... contributed towards rubbing it off. Mallory appeared serenely unconscious of any incongruity in the fact of a man whose clothes breathed Savile Row and whose linen was immaculate as only that of the Londoner—determinedly emergent from the grime of the city—ever is, pottering about in the tiny kitchen, and brooding over ...

— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler

... affords me but little matter on which to expatiate. The good offices done by one nation to its neighbor;[8] the support given in public distress; the relief afforded in general calamity; the protection granted in emergent danger; the mutual return of kindness and civility, would afford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history. But, alas! all the history of all times, concerning all nations, does not afford matter enough to fill ten pages, though it should ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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