coalesce

From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊ.əˈlɛs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊ.əˈlɛs/

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coalesce (third-person singular simple present coalesces, present participle coalescing, simple past and past participle coalesced)

1. (of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole.

   The droplets coalesced into a puddle.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist, Translation by Lesley Brown, 2,

     ... when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks.

   Synonyms: amalgamate, combine, join, merge, unite, fuse

2. (of a whole or a unit) To form from different pieces or elements.

   The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.

3. (engineering) To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.

• -esce
• coalescence
• coalition

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.aˈleːs.ke/, [kɔ.aˈɫeːs.kɛ]

coalēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coalēscō

coalesce

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of coalescer
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of coalescer