The word emergent may mean:
- Emergent (software), Neural Simulation Software
- Emergent (album), a 2003 album by Gordian Knot
- emergent plant, a plant which grows in water but which pierces the surface so that it is partially in air
- Emergent layer of trees growing higher than the surrounding canopy in a tropical rainforest
- emergent evolution, an unpredictable rearrangement of pre-existing entities
- Emergent Viruses, the adaptation of a virus to emerge as a new pathogenic strain with a new attribute in a new field not normally associated with that specific virus
- emergent coastline, a stretch of coast that has been exposed by the sea due to a relative fall in sea levels
- emergent algorithm, a self-stabilizing predictable algorithm
- emergent curriculum, curriculum planning based on the EMERGENT student’s interests and passions as well as the teacher’s
- emergent gameplay, the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designer's original intent
- emergent strategy, strategies which originate in the interaction of an organization with its environment
- emergent democracy, the rise of political structures and behaviors without central planning and by the action of many individual participants
- emergent organization, an organization that spontaneously emerges from and exists in a complex dynamic environment or market place
- emergent materialism, a theory which asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense
- Emergent BioSolutions, a multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
- Emergent Design, a neologism describing a theoretical framework for the implementation of systemic change in education and learning environments
- Emerging church, 21st-century ecumenical Christian movement
Other uses include:
- induced gravity, sometimes referred to as emergent gravity
- "Emergent" may also refer to emergence, or its belief system emergentism
- "Emergent Development" may also refer to the assessment of a developing person in relation to an object specified by the assessor, such as cognitive complexity, ego complexity, subject-object relations, hierarchical task performance, or other researched developmental assessment models in adult development.