Emergence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emergence \E*mer"gence\, n.; pl. {Emergences}.
     The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from
     envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden
     uprisal or appearance.
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           The white color of all refracted light, at its very
           first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors.
                                                    --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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           When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. --H.
                                                    Brooke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emergence
       n 1: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage
            the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: {outgrowth},
             {growth}]
       2: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
          emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow
          catkins" [syn: {egress}, {issue}]
       3: the act of emerging [syn: {emersion}]
       4: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn: {egress},
           {egression}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "emergence":
     apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, break,
     breakout, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, deliverance,
     delivery, development, discharge, disclosure, emanation, emersion,
     emission, epiphany, escape, escapism, evasion, exposure,
     extrication, extrusion, flight, forthcoming, freeing, getaway,
     incarnation, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, liberation,
     manifestation, materialization, materializing, occurrence, opening,
     outlet, presentation, prisonbreak, realization, release, rescue,
     revelation, riddance, rise, rising, setting-free, showing,
     showing forth, surfacing, theophany, unfolding, unfoldment, vent