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.
verbImagine This
Imagine two separate streams meeting in a valley and their waters swirl and then merge into a single, stronger river.
Sounds Like
KO-uh-LESS
Looks Like
looks like 'coal' plus 'alesce', hinting at pieces joining into one
Remember This
From Latin coalescere meaning 'to grow together'; commonly used in politics, science, and computing to describe merging or uniting.
Other Forms
Connect With
merge, fuse, unite, consolidate, amalgamate, converge
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.
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