coalesce

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  1. intransitive verb To grow together; fuse.
  2. intransitive verb To come together so as to form one whole; unite: The rebel units coalesced into one army to fight the invaders. See Synonyms at mix.

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  • We stride into a world where books are narratives in long winding rivers; drops of thought misting from the sundering thrust of great waterfalls; and seas from which all rivers and rain coalesce, and which carry our sails to continents not yet imagined.
  • All waste products gelate, coalesce, and are sucked out of the null-gravity free fall enclosure through egress tiles in the sterile white pyrex floor. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
  • In the nineteenth century we can see many of the characteristics of our own time beginning to coalesce -- even the shape of our own branch of literature, coming into its own in the work of Verne, Wells, and others. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 02 - February 1996
  • As ideas and techniques and styles and formats clash and coalesce, a new Bollywood is birthing. —  GreenCine Daily
  • As this market is just beginning to coalesce, there are still communication protocols that have to be standardized.
 

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  1. Latin coalēscere : co-, co- + alēscere, to grow, inchoative of alere, to nourish; see al-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin coalescere, grow together, from co-, together, + alescere, grow up, from alere, nourish: see aliment.
 

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