About The Word Nascent
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Nascent
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What's The Definition Of Nascent?
[adj] coming into existence; "a nascent republic"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Nascent: aborning | emergent | emerging Related Terms | Find terms related to Nascent: abecedarian | aboriginal | antenatal | autochthonous | beginning | budding | creative | elemental | elementary | embryonic | fetal | formative | foundational | fundamental | gestatory | in embryo | in its infancy | in the bud | inaugural | inceptive | inchoate | inchoative | incipient | incunabular | infant | infantile | initial | initiative | initiatory | introductory | inventive | natal | original | parturient | postnatal | pregnant | prenatal | primal | primary | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | procreative | rudimental | rudimentary | ur See Also | Nascent In Webster's Dictionary \Nas"cent\, 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.
Nascent passions and anxieties. --Berkley.
2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
{Nascent state} (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or
momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just
separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with
another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly
active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent
state is a strong reducer.
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