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Coalescence   /kˌoʊəlˈɛsəns/   Listen
Coalescence

noun
1.
The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts.  Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination.






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"Coalescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eastern provinces, Syria, some persons in very humble life had associated themselves together for benevolent and religious purposes. The doctrines they held were in harmony with that sentiment of universal brotherhood arising from the coalescence of the conquered kingdoms. They were ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

... degrees of—1. Exposure to air and light. 2. Temperature. 3. Moisture, &c. 4. Atmospheric vicissitudes. 5. Season of the year. 6. Nature of the Gonidic reproduction (i.e., gemmation). 7. Nature of habitat. 8. Organic decomposition. 9. Coalescence ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... Greeks from being conquered, it also kept them politically disunited and perpetuated their separate autonomy. It fostered that powerful principle of repulsion, which disposed even the smallest township to constitute itself a political unit apart from the rest, and to resist all idea of coalescence with others, either amicable or compulsory. To a modern reader, accustomed to large political aggregations, and securities for good government through the representative system, it requires a certain mental effort to transport himself back to ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... running together or coalescence of different lines of discharge (1412.) is very beautifully shown in the brush in air. This point may present a little difficulty to those who are not accustomed to see in every discharge an equal exertion of power in opposite directions, ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday

... movement, the developing change in 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 ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells



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



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