emergent

IPA: ɪmˈɝdʒʌnt

(botany) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.

Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
(especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.
(botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
(botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
(video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
(philosophy, sciences) Having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.

Examples of "emergent" in Sentences

Above the canopy is the emergent layer.
These are emergent properties of the systems.
Begin with the status of emergence and emergent behaviour.
He was one of the senior most police officers in the newly emergent country.
These people, which he calls emergent consumers, are characterized by their vision and thinking styles.
What it does not recognize is the third case, which we call emergent strategy where a realized pattern was not expressly intended.
The other wing comes from young people within the Evangelical communities who are questioning and redefining their tradition and is known as "emergent" Christianity.
China's position is best illustrated by an influential foreign policy advisor to Chinese leaders who requested an edit to the forum's communiqué: the phrase "emergent nations led by China" was to be changed to "emergent nations including China".
Purposely ignoring American Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and many evangelicals-about 70 percent of religious Americans-Bloom focuses on the Mormons, the Southern Baptists and other made-in-America sects to tease out what he calls the emergent "American Religion."