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Definition of Coalesce
1. Verb. Mix together different elements. "The colors blend well"
Generic synonyms: Change Integrity
Specialized synonyms: Gauge, Absorb, Meld, Melt, Blend In, Mix In, Accrete, Conjugate, Admix, Alloy, Syncretise, Syncretize
Derivative terms: Blend, Blend, Coalescency, Coalition, Coalition, Combination, Combine, Combining, Flux, Fusible, Fusion, Fusion, Mix, Mix, Mixable, Mixer, Mixture, Mixture, Mixture, Mixture
Also: Mix Up
2. Verb. Fuse or cause to grow together.
Specialized synonyms: Clog, Clot
Derivative terms: Coalescence, Coalescency, Coalition
Definition of Coalesce
1. v. i. To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
Definition of Coalesce
1. Verb. (context: of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole. ¹
2. Verb. (context: of a whole or a unit) To form from different pieces or elements. ¹
3. Verb. (engineering) When two, or more, pieces of metal are bonded together (usually via welding) by liquefying the places where they are to be bonded, coalescing these liquids, and allowing the coalesced liquid to solidify. At the end of this process the two pieces of metal have become one continuous solid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coalesce
1. to blend [v -ALESCED, -ALESCING, -ALESCES] - See also: blend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalesce
Literary usage of Coalesce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... and combinations; and each of these will at last coalesce into one complex
idea, by the approach and commixture of the several compounding parts. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"As they strengthen, many of them coalesce, and form a larger mass. The undulations
of the sea still continuing, these enlarged pieces strike each other on ..."
3. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"Several spots often occur on the same fruit and later coalesce into one large spot.
(Fig. 1, B). As the rot progresses dark-brown concentric rings or zones ..."
4. Introduction to the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy (1913)
"... and must tend to coalesce and be fused into a unitary conception of life.
This process goes on in different degrees in different times and places, ..."
5. Introduction to the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy (1913)
"... and must tend to coalesce and be fused into a unitary conception of life.
This process goes on in different degrees in different times and places, ..."
6. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"Of certain Combinations of Consonants which do not easily coalesce. According to
the modern pronunciation of the Irish language the following combinations ..."
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