"nascent" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈneɪ.sənt/ [Received-Pronunciation, US], /ˈnæs.ənt/ [Received-Pronunciation, US] Audio: en-us-nascent.ogg [US], en-us-nascent-2.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -eɪsənt, -æsənt Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nascēns, nascēntis, present participle of nascor (“I am born”). Doublet of naissant. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-}}, {{bor|en|la|nascens|nascēns, nascēntis}} Latin nascēns, nascēntis, {{m|la|nascor||I am born}} nascor (“I am born”), {{doublet|en|naissant}} Doublet of naissant Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} nascent (not comparable)
  1. Emerging; just coming into existence. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (emerging): emergent, emerging, immature, inchoate, incipient, infant, in statu nascendi Translations (emerging; just coming into existence): зараждащ се (zaraždašt se) (Bulgarian), възникващ (vǎznikvašt) (Bulgarian), rodící se (Czech), vznikající (Czech), aluillaan oleva (Finnish), nuori (Finnish), naissant (French), émergent (French), aufkeimend (German), im Entstehen begriffen (German), werdend (German), aufkommend (German), frischgebacken (German), gerade entstehend (German), születő (Hungarian), keletkező (Hungarian), kialakuló (Hungarian), fejlődő (Hungarian), sem er í myndun [feminine] (Icelandic), sem er í mótun [feminine] (Icelandic), sem er að fæðast (Icelandic), naskanta (Ido), 生まれそうな (umaresōna) (Japanese), nascēns (Latin), nyfødt (Norwegian), powstający [masculine] (Polish), rodzący się [masculine] (Polish), рожда́ющийся (roždájuščijsja) [masculine] (Russian), зарожда́ющийся (zaroždájuščijsja) [masculine] (Russian), возника́ющий (voznikájuščij) [masculine] (Russian), появля́ющийся (pojavljájuščijsja) [masculine] (Russian), образу́ющийся (obrazújuščijsja) [masculine] (Russian), naciente (Spanish), nasciente [dated] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-nascent-en-adj-13sKMO0G Disambiguation of 'emerging': 88 4 3 3 3 Disambiguation of 'emerging; just coming into existence': 81 2 2 9 5
  2. (mathematics, obsolete) 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. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-nascent-en-adj-T2xE2f-T Topics: mathematics, sciences
  3. Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-nascent-en-adj-PkRmbC8R
  4. (chemistry) 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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Chemistry Translations (in chemistry): насцентен (nascenten) (Bulgarian), nascentní (Czech), naszierend (German), nydannet (Norwegian)
    Sense id: en-nascent-en-adj-5cHa3ALL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 7 9 43 22 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 7 9 40 21 Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'in chemistry': 0 0 0 100 0
  5. (heraldry) Naissant. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Heraldry
    Sense id: en-nascent-en-adj-4m5BZTFl Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nascent hydrogen, nascent protein Related terms: antenatal, innate, natal, native, nativism, natural, naturel, naturism, naturalism, prenatal

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          "text": "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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          "ref": "1874, G. Cameron, Charlie Lufton: An Autobiographical Novel, page 130",
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          "ref": "c. 1624, Richard Crakanthorpe, “That the Church of Rome holdeth no doctrine by faith”, in Vigilius Dormitans, Romes Seer Overseene: Or, A Treatise of the Fift Generall Councell held at Constantinople, Anno 553 under Iustininan the Emperour, in the time of Pope Vigilius […], London: Robert Mylbourne, published 1631, page 186",
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          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Lancaster (1860)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58",
          "text": "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\".",
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          "ref": "1710, Sir Isaac Newton, “Quadrature of Curves”, in John Harris, editor, Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining Not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves, volume II, London: Dan. Brown et al., translation of Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos",
          "text": "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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        {
          "ref": "1742, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Reward and Punishment in the Jewish Dispensation., 2nd edition, volume 2, number 1, London: Fletcher Gyles, book IV, section 5, page 222",
          "text": "For, as we have ſhewn, the original Uſe of it was to ſupport naſcent Hero-Worſhip.",
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          "ref": "1800, Humphry Davy, “Additional Observations and Experiments on the Respiration of Nitrous Oxide”, in John Davy, editor, The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy […] Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and its Respiration., volume 3, London: Smith, Elder and Company, published 1839, Of the Changes Effected in Nitrous Oxide, and Other Gases, by the Respiration of Animals, page 250",
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          "ref": "1874, G. Cameron, Charlie Lufton: An Autobiographical Novel, page 130",
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        },
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          "ref": "1931, Louis Carré, A Guide to Old French Plate",
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        },
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      "sense": "emerging",
      "word": "emergent"
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      "sense": "emerging",
      "word": "emerging"
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    {
      "sense": "emerging",
      "word": "immature"
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    {
      "sense": "emerging",
      "word": "inchoate"
    },
    {
      "sense": "emerging",
      "word": "incipient"
    },
    {
      "sense": "emerging",
      "word": "infant"
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      "sense": "emerging",
      "word": "in statu nascendi"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zaraždašt se",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "зараждащ се"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vǎznikvašt",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "възникващ"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "rodící se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "vznikající"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "aluillaan oleva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "nuori"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "naissant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "émergent"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "aufkeimend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "im Entstehen begriffen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "werdend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "aufkommend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "frischgebacken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "gerade entstehend"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "születő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "keletkező"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "kialakuló"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "fejlődő"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "sem er í myndun"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sem er í mótun"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "sem er að fæðast"
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "naskanta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "umaresōna",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "生まれそうな"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "nascēns"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "nyfødt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "powstający"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rodzący się"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "roždájuščijsja",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "рожда́ющийся"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaroždájuščijsja",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зарожда́ющийся"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "voznikájuščij",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "возника́ющий"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pojavljájuščijsja",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "появля́ющийся"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obrazújuščijsja",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "образу́ющийся"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "word": "naciente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "emerging; just coming into existence",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "nasciente"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nascenten",
      "sense": "in chemistry",
      "word": "насцентен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in chemistry",
      "word": "nascentní"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in chemistry",
      "word": "naszierend"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "in chemistry",
      "word": "nydannet"
    }
  ],
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}

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