emerging

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of emerge.

   New details about the scandal kept emerging throughout the week.

   The region is rapidly emerging as a hub for technology startups.

   Note

   The -ing form of a verb that never takes an object: things emerge, but nobody emerges them, so there is no passive to build. It follows be in progressive tenses (the truth is emerging), and it can take a complement naming the state something comes out in, as in emerging unscathed or emerging as a hub. Before a noun, the same spelling usually becomes the adjective for what is rising.

2. 2
   adjective

   Becoming prominent or important; newly developing and on the rise.

   Investors are pouring money into emerging technologies like quantum computing.

   The report highlights emerging threats to the global food supply.

   Similardeveloping, nascent, rising, budding, new

   Oppositeestablished

   Note

   Economics is where the adjective does much of its work. The Economist in 2013 sets the poverty line of the richer parts of the emerging world against America's, and the phrase stands for countries still on the rise. It can be graded, as in more emerging or most emerging, a sign it has settled into a true adjective. Emergent covers much the same ground.

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The process of coming forth, appearing, or becoming visible.

   The emerging of fresh evidence reopened the long-dormant case.

   Scientists documented the slow emerging of life in the recovering forest.

   Similarappearance, surfacing

   Oppositedisappearance

   Note

   The verbal noun at its most noun-like: it takes a plural, so separate episodes of coming up can be counted. Pamphlets on Biology (1857) sets gradual sinkings into deep water against gradual emergings into shallows. Emergence is the word that names the process as a whole, while emerging suits a run of repeated events.

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