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Definition of Nascent
1. Adjective. Being born or beginning. "A nascent insurgency"
Definition of Nascent
1. a. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
Definition of Nascent
1. Adjective. Emerging; just coming into existence. ¹
2. Adjective. (chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is generated from some compound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nascent
1. coming into existence [adj]
Medical Definition of Nascent
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1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. "Nascent passions and anxieties." (Berkley)
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Literary usage of Nascent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"And, as the first fluxions are the velocities of the first nascent increments,
so the second fluxions may be conceived to be the velocities of the second ..."
2. The Analyst (1879)
"THE author has proved by very ingenious experiments that the so-called nascent
hydrogen does not differ in any respect from ordinary hydrogen. ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1894)
"ON THE ASSUMPTION OF A SPECIAL "nascent STATE." BY LAUNCELOT ANDREWS, PH. D.
The assumption frequently appears in chemical literature that elements at the ..."
4. The Electronic Conception of Valence and the Constitution of Benzene by Harry Shipley Fry (1921)
"THE so-called "nascent state" is intimately related to, ... A more comprehensive
and conciliatory view of the nascent state and of nascent action may be ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles of Chemistry by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir (1884)
"The expression 'nascent action' has probably been at once helpful and harmful to
the progress of chemistry. By classing under a common name many phenomena ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"nascent Ammonium Chloride in Pneumonia.—DR. JOHN ASHBURTON CUTTER reports a single
instance of the use of this remedy, which was generated by shaking ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1880)
"(1089) Action of nascent Hydrogen.—Although free hydrogen appears to have but
little action on carbon compounds, yet in the nascent state it is one of the ..."
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