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Coalescence   Listen
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Coalescence  n.  The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.






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"Coalescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... its general spirit will be a world-wide change; that is the quality of its universality. I fancy it will be a coalesced language, a synthesis of many. Such a language as English is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French and Scholar's Latin, welded into one speech more ample and more powerful and beautiful than either. The Utopian tongue might well present a more spacious coalescence, and hold in the frame of such ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... property of the family. Here Maine makes an excursion into the fields of the Early Village Community, and has, too, to look elsewhere than to Rome, where the village community had already been transformed by coalescence into the city-state. He therefore seeks his examples from India and points to the Indian village as an example of the expansion of the family into a larger group of co-proprietors, larger but still bearing traces of its origin to the patriarchal power. And, to quote his own words, ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

... a diagram, correctly representing the reflection at the two surfaces of the film; but here his clearness ends. He ascribes the colours to a coalescence or confusion of the two reflecting pulses; the principal of interference being unknown to him, he could not go further in ...
— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall

... in the life of every man, as in that of all other complex animals, is the moment in which he begins his individual existence [coalescence of sperm cell and ovum] ... the existence of the personality, the independent individual, commences. This ontogenetic fact is supremely important, for the most far-reaching conclusions may be drawn from it. In the first place, we have a clear perception that man, like all the other complex animals, ...
— Life and Matter - A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' • Oliver Lodge

... to floods or exposed to the smoke of more fortunate districts, insufficiently supplied with water, and as insanitary as the great fear of infectious diseases felt by the wealthier classes permitted. In the twenty-second century, however, the growth of the city storey above storey, and the coalescence of buildings, had led to a different arrangement. The prosperous people lived in a vast series of sumptuous hotels in the upper storeys and halls of the city fabric; the industrial population dwelt beneath in the tremendous ground-floor ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells

... all the facts which were learned from them; but it is not logical, since one observation may have concerned the number of elements in the rhythmic unit, another their internal distribution, and a third their coalescence in a higher unity. On the other hand, the statement of each of these in its own proper connection would necessitate the repetition of some description, however meager, of the conditions of experimentation in connection with each item. For economy's sake, ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various



Words linked to "Coalescence" :   conjugation, conglutination, coalition, uniting, concretion, jointure, unification, union, coalescent, coalesce



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