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English to English adjective
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Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | | Example: incipient civil disorder
an incipient tumor
a vague inchoate idea
source: wordnet30
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