coalesce

From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊ.əˈlɛs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊ.əˈlɛs/

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coalesce (third-person singular simple present coalesces, present participle coalescing, simple past and past participle coalesced)

1. (of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole.

   The droplets coalesced into a puddle.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist, Translation by Lesley Brown, 2,

     ... when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks.

   Synonyms: amalgamate, combine, join, merge, unite, fuse

2. (of a whole or a unit) To form from different pieces or elements.

   The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.

3. (engineering) To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.
4. (of separate groups or persons) To merge, to intermingle freely.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 27:

     It was not a wise thing to enter a close clique, my good madam, until you had examined both them and yourself, and considered how far you were likely to coalesce.

• -esce
• coalescence
• coalition

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.aˈleːs.ke/, [koäˈɫ̪eːs̠kɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.aˈleʃ.ʃe/, [koäˈlɛʃːe]

coalēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coalēscō

coalesce

1. inflection of coalescer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative