COALESCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coalesced mean? 

• COALESCED (adjective)
  The adjective COALESCED has 1 sense:

1. joined together into a whole

  Familiarity information: COALESCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COALESCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joined together into a whole

Synonyms:

amalgamate; amalgamated; coalesced; consolidated; fused

Context example:

a consolidated school

Similar:

united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)

 Context examples 

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

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

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)

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)

They found there was so much iron and phosphate that the particles coalesced into clumps where these microbes could not get to them.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

The material went into orbit around Pluto and coalesced under its own gravity to form Charon and several smaller moons.

(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)

Such an impact would also be expected to have generated a ring of material around Mars that later coalesced into Phobos and Deimos; this explains in part why those moons are made of a mix of native and non-Martian material.

(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One popular theory is that such an object could arise when two comets – even two compositionally distinct comets – melded together under a low velocity collision during the Solar System's formation billions of years ago, when small building blocks of rocky and icy debris coalesced to eventually create planets.

(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)

The height of the trees and the thickness of the boles exceeded anything which I in my town-bred life could have imagined, shooting upwards in magnificent columns until, at an enormous distance above our heads, we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side-branches into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one great matted roof of verdure, through which only an occasional golden ray of sunshine shot downwards to trace a thin dazzling line of light amidst the majestic obscurity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)