nascent

Definitions

1. Emerging; just coming into existence.
   not-comparable
2. Incipient, nascent.
3. Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
   not-comparable
4. Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
   not-comparable
5. Naissant.
   not-comparable
6. Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
   not-comparable, obsolete

Equivalents

9 more languages

العربيةناشئ

Češtinanascentnívznikající

Ελληνικάαρτιγενής

Suomialoittelevanuori

Gaeilgenuaghinte

Magyarfejlődőkialakuló

日本語生まれそうな

Latinanascens

Русскийвозникающийзарождающийсяобразу́ющийсяпоявляющийсярождающийся+ 2 more

Examples

“In the firſt, the Pope was but Antichriſt naſcent ; In the ſecond, Antichriſt creſcent ; In the third, Antichriſt regnant ; but in this fourth, he is made Lord of the Catholike faith, and Antichriſt triumphant[…]”

“Locke has another plaque at Crediton station, on the line from Exeter to Barnstaple. It tells us that his "great number⟳ of unsurpassed works include⟳ the building of the nascent London & South Western Railway".”

“For, as we have⟳ ſhewn, the original Uſe of it was to ſupport naſcent Hero-Worſhip.”

“There are no reasons for supposing that any of the residual atmospheric oxygen is immediately combined with fixed or nascent hydrogen, or hydrocarbonate, in the venous blood at 98°, by slow combustion, and consequently none for supposing that water is immediately formed in respiration.”

“[…] charges of blazonry, bends sinister and bends dexter, lions couchant, lions nascent, and[…]”

“Marks of the makers : the initials of the maker and the arms of the town : a lion nascent with three flames.”

“[...] in chief a demi lion nascent gules.”

“Fluxions are very nearly as the Augments of the Fluents, generated in equal, but infinitely ſmall parts of Time ; and to ſpeak exactly, are in the Prime Ratio of the naſcent Augments : but they may be expounded by any Lines that are proportional to ’em.”

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