COALESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coalesce mean? 

• COALESCE (verb)
  The verb COALESCE has 2 senses:

1. mix together different elements

2. fuse or cause to grow together

  Familiarity information: COALESCE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COALESCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they coalesce    ... he / she / it coalesces   
Past simple: coalesced   
Past participle: coalesced   
-ing form: coalescing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mix together different elements

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix

Context example:

The colors blend well

Hypernyms (to "coalesce" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "coalesce"):

gauge (mix in specific proportions)

absorb (cause to become one with)

meld; melt (lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually)

blend in; mix in (cause (something) to be mixed with (something else))

accrete (grow together (of plants and organs))

conjugate (unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds)

admix (mix or blend)

alloy (make an alloy of)

syncretise; syncretize (become fused)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

coalescency; coalition (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)

coalition (the state of being combined into one body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fuse or cause to grow together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "coalesce" is one way to...):

merge; unify; unite (become one)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "coalesce"):

clog; clot (coalesce or unite in a mass)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

coalescence; coalescency; coalition (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)

 Context examples 

Earth is thought to have gradually coalesced in fiery collisions of smaller planetoids – and those hellish conditions can now explain an enduring scientific mystery.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These localized storms occasionally grow or coalesce to form regional systems, particularly during the southern spring and summer, when Mars is closest to the sun.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, these particles cooled and coalesced into neutral hydrogen gas.

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

Stars that are just beginning to coalesce out of cool swaths of dust and gas are showcased in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)

The cells fuse and coalesce, but their nuclei may remain separated.

(Cell Fusion, NCI Thesaurus)

One theory is that supermassive black holes, which are at the center of most massive galaxies, are formed when smaller black holes steadily coalesce into larger ones.

(Astronomers Find New Evidence for Long-theorized Mid-sized Black Holes, VOA News)

PAHs are abundant in the dense molecular clouds where stars coalesce.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

Triton settled into a circular orbit and the debris from shattered Neptunian moons re-coalesced into a second generation of natural satellites.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)

An indication that multiple tumors have coalesced into one tumor.

(Matted Tumor Mass Present, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Nightside temperatures are around 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit cooler (1,000 degrees Celsius), cold enough for water to re-form and, along with other molecules, coalesce into clouds.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)