Formation vs. Emergence

Formationnoun

Something possessing structure or form.

Formationnoun

The act of assembling a group or structure.

Formationnoun

(geology) A rock or face of a mountain.

Formationnoun

(military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.

Formationnoun

(military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".

Formationnoun

(sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.

Formationnoun

The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.

Formationnoun

The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

Formationnoun

(category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.

Formationnoun

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

Formationnoun

The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

Formationnoun

A substance formed or deposited.

Formationnoun

Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.

Formationnoun

The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.

Formationnoun

an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit;

Formationnoun

a particular spatial arrangement

Formationnoun

the fabrication of something in a particular shape

Formationnoun

the act of forming something;

Formationnoun

(geology) the geological features of the earth

Formationnoun

natural process that causes something to form;

Formationnoun

creation by mental activity;

Emergencenoun

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.

Emergencenoun

In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.

Emergencenoun

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.

Emergencenoun

the gradual beginning or coming forth;

Emergencenoun

the becoming visible;

Emergencenoun

the act of emerging

Emergencenoun

the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

Emergencenoun

the process of becoming visible after being concealed

Emergencenoun

the escape of an insect or other invertebrate from an egg, cocoon, or pupal case

Emergencenoun

the process of coming into existence or prominence

Emergence

In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. Emergence plays a central role in theories of integrative levels and of complex systems.