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COALESCENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coalescence mean?
• COALESCENCE (noun)
The noun COALESCENCE has 1 sense:
1. the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
Familiarity information: COALESCENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination
Hypernyms ("coalescence" is a kind of...):
conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting (the act of making or becoming a single unit)
Derivation:
coalesce (fuse or cause to grow together)
coalescent (growing together, fusing)
Context examples
Simethicone, a mixture of polydimethylsiloxane and silica gel, reduces the surface tension of gas bubbles, promoting gas bubble coalescence and so intestinal gas transit and evacuation.
(Magnesium Hydroxide/Aluminum Hydroxide/Simethicone Suspension, NCI Thesaurus)
The event, located about 1.8 billion light-years away resulted in a spinning black hole with about 53 times the mass of our sun — that means about three solar masses were converted into gravitational-wave energy during the coalescence.
(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)
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