nascent
IPA: nˈeɪsʌnt
adjective
- Emerging; just coming into existence.
- (mathematics, obsolete) Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
- Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
- (chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
- (heraldry) Naissant.
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Examples of "nascent" in Sentences
- Both the nation and the economy are nascent.
- The nascent rave culture was emerging in Los Angeles.
- They are, in other words, nascent digital frontal lobes.
- All in all, the article conveys the sense of a nascent EU army.
- Baird went to work for the nascent railroad industry in the 1830s.
- Several of the crew were wounded and the nascent mutiny was quashed.
- This all seems like foolish talk because Bond 23 is in nascent stages.
- In kabuki's nascent period, women were the only performers in the plays.
- Copper availability doesn't affect the translation of the nascent protein.
- The conception does honor to the nascent citizenship of the Pacific states.
- He worked at the Polaroid corporation in the nascent field of fiber optics.
- The nascent sense of nationalism among Punjabi Muslims evolved in the area.
- Photo2Search, as Microsoft calls the nascent feature, returns Web pages either with information about the objects in the photo, or sites that contain similar images.
- She recalled the nascent shock at her triumph still present in Jake's eyes even after he'd stopped moving and dove again to arise and meet the statues 'feral glares.
- For example, Whitehouse and others supposedly called their nascent group "Clean Up National TV" until her husband pointed out the unfortunate acronym - they then changed it to "Clean Up TV."
- In 2007, Israeli jets bombed a Syrian industrial facility on the Euphrates River that U.S. intelligence officials subsequently described as a nascent nuclear reactor being built by North Koreans.
- On the one hand it is conceivable that there was room for new interpretation in nascent community-building, but on the other these new communities in all likelihood did not radically reinvent their social and cultural heritage.
- Chemists tell us that certain substances in the act of formation, which they call nascent substances, are extraordinarily active and potent, and it may be that ice in the same state has a special tenacity of texture which belongs to that state alone.