Emergent

Emergent usually refers to emergence, or its belief system emergentism.

It may also mean:

* Emergent (software), Neural Simulation Software
* Emergent (album), a 2003 album by Gordian Knot
* emergent plant, a plant which grows in water but which pierces the surface so that it is partially in air
* emergent evolution, an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities
* emergent viruses, the adaptation of a virus to emerge as a new pathogenic strain with a new attribute in a new field not normally associated with that specific virus
* emergent coastline, a stretch of coast that has been exposed by the sea due to a relative fall in sea levels
* emergent algorithm, a self-stabilizing predictable algorithm
* emergent curriculum, curriculum planning based on the student’s interests and passions as well as the teacher’s
* emergent gameplay, the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designer's original intent
* emergent strategy, strategies which originate in the interaction of an organization with its environment
* emergent democracy
* emergent organisation
* emergent materialism, a theory which asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense
* Emergent BioSolutions, a multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
* Emergent Design, a neologism describing a theoretical framework for the implementation of systemic change in education and learning environments
* Emerging church, 21st-century Protestant Christian movement Other uses include:
* induced gravity, sometimes referred to as "emergent gravity"

ee also

* Emergence (disambiguation)