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Noun emergence has 4 senses
- emergence, outgrowth, growth - the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
--1 is a kind of beginning
--1 has particulars: rise
- emergence, egress, issue - the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins"
--2 is a kind of beginning
--2 has particulars: eruption; dissilience
- emergence, emersion - the act of emerging
--3 is a kind of appearance
- egress, egression, emergence - the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
--4 is a kind of deed, feat, effort, exploit
--4 has particulars: surfacing; emission, emanation
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