Definition of Coalescent

1. Adjective. Growing together, fusing. "Coalescent bones"

Exact synonyms: Coalescing
Similar to: United
Derivative terms: Coalescence, Coalescency

Definition of Coalescent

1. a. Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

Definition of Coalescent

1. Adjective. Causing coalescence ¹

2. Noun. Any agent that causes coalesence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coalescent

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalescent

coalbeds
coalbin
coalbins
coalbox
coalboxes
coaled
coaler
coaleries
coalers
coalery
coalesce
coalesced
coalescence
coalescences
coalescency
coalescent (current term)
coalescents
coalescer
coalescers
coalesces
coalescing
coalface
coalfaces
coalfield
coalfields
coalfired
coalfish
coalfishes
coalgebra
coalgebraic

Literary usage of Coalescent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Selected Proceedings of the Sheffield Symposium on Applied Probability by Ishwar V. Basawa, Robert L Taylor (1991)
"AN URN MODEL AND THE coalescent IN NEUTRAL INFINITE- ALLELES GENETIC PROCESSES David Branson University of Essex Abstract An urn model is proposed as a ..."

2. The Manual of Phonography by Benn Pitman, Jerome Bird Howard (1903)
"coalescent Logograms Unshaded.— We, ye and you are theoretically written with heavy signs, but in practise it is not necessary to shade them. 75. ..."

3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... of two stamens and the rudiment of a third, variously coalescent with the style. Anther 2-celled, each cell containing one or more masses of pollen ..."

4. Language Lessons from Literature: Book I-IIby Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster by Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster (1903)
"The mark (—) is called the coalescent. Or after w often has the sound of ur, and is marked 5r. Examples: word, worth, worse, work, world, worm. ..."

5. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"I have demonstrated that essentially all the extra complexity caused by allowing partial selfing in a coalescent model with balancing selection can be ..."

6. The Alphabet of Nature: Or, Contributions Towards a More Accurate Analysis by Alexander John Ellis (1845)
"As the precise nature of a sound can only be learned by frequent repetitions, and as the coalescent so far partakes of the nature of a consonant as to ..."

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