emergence

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) An emergency.
  4. (countable, uncountable) An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising from more than the superficial cells, and from spines in arising from a few layers only.

Frequency

30k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/
Etymology

Borrowed from French émergence. Doublet of emergency. By surface analysis, emerge + -ence.

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