nascent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nascent	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for nascent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nascent adj being born or beginning; "the nascent chicks"; "a nascent insurgency" Antonym(s): dying
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nascent \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.