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Definition of Emergents
1. emergent [n] - See also: emergent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emergents
Literary usage of Emergents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1875)
"There are two classes of effects markedly distinguishable as RESULTANTS AND
emergents. 65. Thus, although each effect is the resultant of its components, ..."
2. Destination Honduras: Study Guide by DIANE Publishing Company (1992)
"Although most emergents are about 115 to 150 feet tall, ... Like the emergents,
trees in the canopy are subjected to changing temperature and humidity. ..."
3. British Offices Life Tables, 1893: An Account of the Principles and Methods by Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) (1903)
"After the first counting, as emergents, had thus been completed and verified, it
was necessary to recount the cards as Entrants, for the purpose of ..."
4. British Offices Life Tables, 1893: An Account of the Principles and Methods by Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland, Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain), Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain (1903)
"After the first counting, as emergents, had thus been completed and verified ...
and similarly classified to those employed for the record of the emergents. ..."
5. Cases Selected from Those Heard and Determined in the Vice-admiralty Court by Québec (Province). Vice-Admiralty Court, George Okill Stuart (1875)
"... as upon any of the shores or banks adjoining to them or either of them, together
with all and singular their incidents, emergents, dependents, ..."