'Emerging' definitions:

Definition of 'emerging'

From: WordNet
adjective
Coming to maturity; "the rising generation" [syn: emerging, rising]
adjective
Coming into existence; "an emergent republic" [syn: emergent, emerging]

Definition of 'Emerging'

From: GCIDE
  • Emerge \E*merge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emerged; p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging.] [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge.] To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. --Burke. [1913 Webster]