emergence

noun
/ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/UK/ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from émergence

Definitions

  1. The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of…

    The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.

    • Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then
  2. An emergency.

    • In this dire emergence, the Marquis de Torcy, minister for foreign affairs, offered his services.
    • I[…]had recourse to an English Merchant, Mr Gregory, long settled at Dunkirk, to whom, happily, I had been recommended, as to a person capable, in any emergence, to afford me assistance.
  3. An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at emergence. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at emergence. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at emergence

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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