Usually means: Arising unexpectedly from complex causes.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word emergent:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. emergent: Merriam-Webster
  2. emergent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emergent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emergent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emergent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emergent, emergent: Wordnik
  7. emergent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emergent: Wiktionary
  9. emergent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emergent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emergent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. emergent: Dictionary.com
  13. Emergent (album), Emergent (disambiguation), Emergent (software): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. emergent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. emergent: Rhymezone
  16. Emergent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. emergent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. emergent: FreeDictionary.org
  19. emergent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. emergent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Emergent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  22. Emergent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  23. emergent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. emergent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. emergent: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emergent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See emergents as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (emergent)

adjective:  Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
adjective:  Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
adjective:  (especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.
adjective:  (botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
adjective:  (botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
adjective:  (video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
adjective:  (philosophy, epistemology, sciences) That arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
noun:  (botany) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.

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