coalesce

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/ ˌkoʊ əˈlɛs /

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verb (used without object), co·a·lesced, co·a·lesc·ing.

to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.

to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.: The various groups coalesced into a crowd.

to blend or come together: Their ideas coalesced into one theory.

verb (used with object), co·a·lesced, co·a·lesc·ing.

to cause to unite in one body or mass.

OTHER WORDS FOR coalesce

1, 2 unite, combine, join.

2 amalgamate, fuse, blend, merge.

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Origin of coalesce

First recorded in 1535–45; from Latin coalēscere, equivalent to co- co- + al- (stem of alere “to nourish, make grow”) + -escere -esce

OTHER WORDS FROM coalesce

co·a·les·cence, nounco·a·les·cent, adjectivenon·co·a·les·cence, nounnon·co·a·les·cent, adjective

non·co·a·les·cing, adjectiveun·co·a·les·cent, adjective

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How to use coalesce in a sentence

Massive year-over-year changes in gaming are rare because even if a historically unique platform launches or is unveiled, it takes time for a critical mass of developers to congregate and adopt something new — and longer for users to coalesce.
Cloud-gaming platforms were 2020’s most overhyped trend|Lucas Matney|December 11, 2020|TechCrunch
His instinct to champion policies others had already coalesced behind had dominated his political career.
Faulconer Hopes His Action on Homelessness Will Overshadow His Failure|Lisa Halverstadt|December 7, 2020|Voice of San Diego
In this case, studying material from Ryugu can help us understand what the early solar system was like when massive amounts of gas and dust were coalescing into different asteroids, moons, and planets—including habitable worlds like Earth.
Japan is about to bring back samples of an asteroid 180 million miles away|Neel Patel|December 2, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Democrats coalesced behind Atlanta pastor Raphael Warnock, who received the most votes of any candidate in this first round, about 33 percent.
Democrats Needed A Big Blue Wave To Win The Senate, And It Looks Like They Didn’t Get It|Perry Bacon Jr. (perry.bacon@fivethirtyeight.com)|November 9, 2020|FiveThirtyEight

So at the beginning of the pandemic, she and her team expected that Americans would coalesce around public health experts’ recommendations, or that other demographic factors — like age — would turn into key dividing lines.
Republicans And Democrats See COVID-19 Very Differently. Is That Making People Sick?|Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux|July 23, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Two of the three green spots, which have become still more enlarged, are coalescent.
Studies in the Theory of Descent (Volumes 1 and 2)|August Weismann
Her Song is heard, a mutter of music, low yet coalescent in slow estrangement from her lips.
The Masque of the Elements|Herman Scheffauer
Involucral leaves coalescent into an oblong truncate hairy tube, blended in our species with the calyptra; perianth none.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States|Asa Gray
Gamopetalous, said of a corolla the petals of which are thus coalescent into one body, whether only at base or higher.
The Elements of Botany|Asa Gray
The Negro wanted the world war to prove that he, too, was a coalescent element in the civilization of the world.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights|Kelly Miller

British Dictionary definitions for coalesce

coalesce

/ (ˌkəʊəˈlɛs) /

verb

(intr) to unite or come together in one body or mass; merge; fuse; blend

Derived forms of coalesce

coalescence, nouncoalescent, adjective

Word Origin for coalesce

C16: from Latin coalēscere from co- + alēscere to increase, from alere to nourish

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