nascent

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. being born or beginning“the nascent chicks”“a nascent insurgency”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Nascent \Nas"cent\ (n[a^]s"sent; n[=a]"sent), a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be born. See Nation, and cf. Naissant.]

1.Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Nascent passions and anxieties.— Berkley.[1913 Webster]

2.(Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced; as, nascent oxygen. [1913 Webster]

Nascent state (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; as, hydrogen in the nascent state is a strong reducer. [1913 Webster]

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