emergence

B2 · Upper Intermediate Uncountable noun

n. the start of something new becoming popular, important, or known to everyone.

n. the process of becoming visible, important, or prominent within a social, political, or economic context.

日本語:登場※

“The emergence of new technology has changed how we communicate with our families.”

“The emergence of independent city-states in the region fundamentally altered the balance of power during the fourteenth century.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Botany Technical

n. the moment a small plant or part of a plant grows out of the soil.

n. the process of a seedling or plant part breaking through the surface of the soil or a protective layer.

“Farmers watch for the emergence of the first green shoots in early spring.”

“Successful seedling emergence depends heavily on soil temperature and the depth at which the seeds were originally planted.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Archaic

n. a very old word for a sudden, dangerous situation that needs immediate action.

n. a sudden or unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action; a precursor to the modern sense of 'emergency'.

“In times of great emergence, the king would call his advisors together.”

“The chronicler noted that the sudden emergence of the plague left the village elders without any clear plan of action.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun AI

n. the sudden appearance of new and complex abilities in an AI system that were not present in smaller versions of the model.

n. the spontaneous manifestation of novel, qualitative capabilities or behaviors in large-scale models that cannot be predicted from individual components.

“Engineers observed the emergence of multi-step arithmetic reasoning only after the model reached a critical parameter size.”

“Debates surrounding emergence in large language models center on whether novel abilities represent genuine phase transitions or evaluation metric artifacts.”