emerging

By surface analysis, emerge +‎ -ing.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/

emerging (comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)

1. Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
   • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

     America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

• emerging adult
• emerging market

emerging

1. present participle and gerund of emerge

emerging (plural emergings)

1. Emergence.
   • 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:

     We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district […]