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/kˌoʊəlˈɛs/ Listen

verb

Coalesce v. i. (past & past part. coalesced; pres. part. coalescing)

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. "The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations." "Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose."

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"Coalesce" Quotes from Famous Books

... We do not coalesce; our ideas, age and country are different; he is hard as a rock, brusque and overbearing—but amazingly clever and energetic. He seems to hold so many threads in his hands, to deal with such numbers of people; his correspondence is enormous; his office, when he is at home, is surrounded ...

— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker

... feelings which arise in connection with the processes of digestion, respiration, and circulation, and the condition of various organs according to their state of nutrition, etc. During our waking life these organic feelings coalesce for the most part, forming as the "vital sense" an obscure background for our clear discriminative consciousness, and only come forward into this region when very exceptional in character, as when respiration or digestion is impeded, ...

— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully

... eddying clouds of flame began to coalesce and solidify with startling suddenness. A moment later, like the abrupt lighting of a room when an electric switch is snapped, the mists vanished and Powell felt firm footing again under his feet. Around him were the familiar ...

— Devil Crystals of Arret • Hal K. Wells

... approved of the division. Mr. Fox, from whom Burke became alienated during this debate, looked at the question in an entirely different light and was strongly of opinion that "it was most desirable to see the French and English inhabitants coalesce into one body, and the different distinctions of people extinguished ...

— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

... them can for a moment doubt. There are two principles of attraction which bring different natures together: that in which the two natures closely resemble each other, and that in which one is complementary of the other. In the first case, they coalesce, as do two drops of water or of mercury, and become intimately blended as soon as they touch; in the other, they rush together as an acid and an alkali unite, predestined from eternity to find all they most needed ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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