emerging

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, emerge +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

emerging (comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)

1. Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
   • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

     America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Derived terms

• emerging adult
• emergingly
• emerging market
• nonemerging
• unemerging

 

Translations

becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising

• Catalan: emergent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新出現 / 新出现 (xīn chūxiàn), 新興 / 新兴 (zh) (xīnxīng)

• Dutch: (naar) boven komen, naar buiten komen, zich vertonen, zich voordoen, blijken (nl)
• Finnish: nouseva (fi), kasvava (fi), nuori (fi), orastava (fi)
• French: émergent (fr)
• German: entstehend (de)
• Hungarian: feltörekvő (hu), kialakuló (hu), kibontakozó (hu), bontakozó, fejlődő (hu), emergens, felmerülő (hu), felbukkanó (hu), megjelenő (hu)
• Italian: emergente (it)
• Japanese: 発展途上の (はってんとじょうの, hatten tojō no), 新興の (ja) (しんこうの, shinkō no)
• Russian: развива́ющийся (ru) (razvivájuščijsja) (developing), возника́ющий (ru) (voznikájuščij), восходя́щий (ru) (vosxodjáščij), расту́щий (ru) (rastúščij)
• Spanish: emergente

Verb

emerging

1. present participle and gerund of emerge

Noun

emerging (plural emergings)

1. Emergence.
   • 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:

     We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district […]