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incipient

adj
/ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incipiēns, present participle of incipiō (“begin”).

  1. borrowed from incipiēns

Definitions

  1. In an initial stage

    In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

    • After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.
    • Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.
    • How many more places might have been distributed by her incipient majesty it is impossible to say, for the thread of her meditation was broken by the sudden termination of the path.

  2. A beginner.

  3. A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at incipient. 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.

01incipient02stage03activated04activate05increased06increase07multiply08grow09sprout

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

9 hops · closes at incipient

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA