Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Coming into existence; emerging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beginning to exist or to grow; commencing development; coming into being; incipient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being.
- adjective (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
- adjective (Chem.) the fleeting or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound, and not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly active chemical properties.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Emerging ; just coming intoexistence . - adjective chemistry Of the state of an
element at the time it is generated from somecompound .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being born or beginning
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Chemists tell us that certain substances in the act of formation, which they call nascent substances, are extraordinarily active and potent, and it may be that ice in the same state has a special tenacity of texture which belongs to that state alone.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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This all seems like foolish talk because Bond 23 is in nascent stages.
Rumor of the Day: Olivia Wilde and Freida Pinto for Bond 23 | /Film 2010
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On the one hand it is conceivable that there was room for new interpretation in nascent community-building, but on the other these new communities in all likelihood did not radically reinvent their social and cultural heritage.
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They are, in other words, nascent digital frontal lobes.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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They are, in other words, nascent digital frontal lobes.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Photo2Search, as Microsoft calls the nascent feature, returns Web pages either with information about the objects in the photo, or sites that contain similar images.
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In 2007, Israeli jets bombed a Syrian industrial facility on the Euphrates River that U.S. intelligence officials subsequently described as a nascent nuclear reactor being built by North Koreans.
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She recalled the nascent shock at her triumph still present in Jake's eyes even after he'd stopped moving and dove again to arise and meet the statues 'feral glares.
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She recalled the nascent shock at her triumph still present in Jake's eyes even after he'd stopped moving and dove again to arise and meet the statues 'feral glares.
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For example, Whitehouse and others supposedly called their nascent group "Clean Up National TV" until her husband pointed out the unfortunate acronym - they then changed it to "Clean Up TV."
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brtom commented on the word nascent
In theory, this would benefit our nascent major programs as well as the general education curriculum ...
Joseph Duemer, Sharp Sand
December 22, 2006
lweber5@scf.edu commented on the word nascent
Dictionary.com, The actress is now focusing on her nascent singing career.
November 5, 2010