Coalesce
To come together to form one mass or whole; to merge separate elements into a single entity.
verbCoalesce
To come together to form one mass or whole; to merge separate elements into a single entity.
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Imagine This
Imagine two separate streams meeting in a valley and their waters swirl and then merge into a single, stronger river.
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Sounds Like
KO-uh-LESS
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Looks Like
looks like 'coal' plus 'alesce', hinting at pieces joining into one
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Remember This
From Latin coalescere meaning 'to grow together'; commonly used in politics, science, and computing to describe merging or uniting.
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Other Forms
coalescesverb
coalescingverb
coalescedverb
coalescencenoun
coalescentadjective
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Connect With
merge, fuse, unite, consolidate, amalgamate, converge
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Note
Use coalesce when describing things that come together or are combined. In computing, COALESCE is also a function that selects the first non-null value among its arguments.