English Dictionary

emergent

/ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒənt/

adj

Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new. / Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction. / (especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.

The emergent technology has the potential to revolutionize the industry.

意味（1）

Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.

意味（2）

Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.

意味（3）

(especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.

Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.

意味（4）

(botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.

意味（5）

(botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.

意味（6）

(video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.

In short, emergent games are ones that allow a huge range of possibilities and don't dictate a strict, linear flow of events. A strategy game is emergent because so many units can interact and have some effect on each other.

意味（7）

(philosophy, sciences) Having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.

A high-level phenomenon is strongly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are not deducible even in principle from truths in the low-level domain.[…] A high-level phenomenon is weakly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are unexpected given the principles governing the low-level domain.