emergent : Idioms & Phrases


emergent evolution

  • noun the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution
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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.
Webster 1913