Emergent

The word emergent may mean:

  • Emergent (software), Neural Simulation Software
  • Emergent (album), a 2003 album by Gordian Knot
  • emergent plant, a plant which grows in water but which pierces the surface so that it is partially in air
  • Emergent layer of trees growing higher than the surrounding canopy in a tropical rainforest
  • emergent evolution, an unpredictable rearrangement of pre-existing entities
  • Emergent Viruses, the adaptation of a virus to emerge as a new pathogenic strain with a new attribute in a new field not normally associated with that specific virus
  • emergent coastline, a stretch of coast that has been exposed by the sea due to a relative fall in sea levels
  • emergent algorithm, a self-stabilizing predictable algorithm
  • emergent curriculum, curriculum planning based on the EMERGENT student’s interests and passions as well as the teacher’s
  • emergent gameplay, the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designer's original intent
  • emergent strategy, strategies which originate in the interaction of an organization with its environment
  • emergent democracy, the rise of political structures and behaviors without central planning and by the action of many individual participants
  • emergent organization, an organization that spontaneously emerges from and exists in a complex dynamic environment or market place
  • emergent materialism, a theory which asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense
  • Emergent BioSolutions, a multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
  • Emergent Design, a neologism describing a theoretical framework for the implementation of systemic change in education and learning environments
  • Emerging church, 21st-century ecumenical Christian movement

Other uses include:

  • induced gravity, sometimes referred to as emergent gravity
  • "Emergent" may also refer to emergence, or its belief system emergentism
  • "Emergent Development" may also refer to the assessment of a developing person in relation to an object specified by the assessor, such as cognitive complexity, ego complexity, subject-object relations, hierarchical task performance, or other researched developmental assessment models in adult development.