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Adjective: incipient  in'si-pee-unt
  1. Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
    "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumour";
    - inchoate
     
  2. Being born or beginning
    - nascent

See also: dissilient, early, emergent, emerging, parturient

Encyclopedia: Incipient