Usually means: Beginning to exist or develop.
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  1. nascent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nascent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nascent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nascent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nascent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nascent, nascent: Wordnik
  7. nascent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nascent: Wiktionary
  9. nascent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nascent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nascent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nascent: Dictionary.com
  13. nascent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Nascent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nascent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nascent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nascent: Rhymezone
  18. Nascent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nascent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nascent: Free Dictionary
  21. nascent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. nascent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nascent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Nascent (disambiguation), nascent: Legal dictionary

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  1. Nascent (disambiguation), nascent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Nascent (disambiguation), nascent: Medical dictionary

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  1. nascent: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. nascent: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Emerging; just coming into existence.
adjective:  (mathematics, obsolete) Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
adjective:  Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
adjective:  (chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
adjective:  (heraldry) Naissant.

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