Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of coalescing or uniting; the state of being intimately joined.
- n. In botany, the organic union of similar parts.
- n. In psychology: the combination of a number of sensible data into a single object-perception.
- n. The unremarked assimilation of a mental content to other mental contents or to conscious dispositions.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of coalescing.
- n. phonology The merging of two segments into one resulting from mutual assimilation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
Examples
“Merriam-Webster Online defines the word coalescence:”
“Merriam-Webster Online defines the word coalescence: to arise from the combination of distinct elements. ”
“For pragmatism this kind of coalescence is inessential.”
“There's a kind of coalescence happening in the aboriginal rights movement and this film is part of that.”
“Reut said there is a "coalescence" between "two parallel processes" - the so-called delegitimization forces, like NGOs and leftist organizations, and the militant Islamist efforts led by such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah.”
“They will create comparisons designed to mislead: Reut said there is a "coalescence" between "two parallel processes" - the so-called delegitimization forces, such as NGOs and leftist organizations, and the militant Islamist efforts led by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
“When two rain droplets merge, "coalescence" has taken place.”
“This coalescence of events and circumstances has never happened before.”
The Huffington Post: Beverly Willett: The Most Pioneering Divorce Reform Effort In 40 Years
“I just don't see any real coalescence around any one candidate," Mr. Bolton said.”
The Wall Street Journal: Wide-Open GOP Presidential Field Spurs Dark Horses
“They also underline Ankara's coalescence with Washington on regional policy, following a recent strain that saw Turkey moving closer to Iran and engaging in rhetorical sparring with a top U.S. ally in the region, Israel.”
The Wall Street Journal: Turkey Pushes for New Action on Syria
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coalescence’.
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phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 321 more...
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• Wordies talk about themselves
Sometimes users are also persons.
llogos, peter stickles, old age, 39, insomnia, frown of approval, chuck norris, ovular, gay, fencing, rabbits, seven empty cups ... and 137 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Cloudy
with a chance of mizzle
puff, nebulous, fog, overcast, becloud, bedim, taint, befog, dapple, mottle, sully, pother and 83 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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strieale's Words
scientism, chronological, christophobia, subsurface, high culture, jeffersonian demo..., jacksonian democracy, incommensurable, rebuttal, discerning, disparate, anodyne and 156 more...
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elij's Words
diegesis, intrinsic, semantic, salience, nonchalant, infosthetics, ambiguous, altruism, cynical, abstruse, vatic, encomium and 137 more...
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SAT Words Appearing More Than Once on...
A list of 166 words that have appeared more than once on official SAT exams. Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master list.
abolish, ameliorate, ambulatory, ambivalent, acquiesce, affirmation, atrophy, anchor, amity, amass, accent, abridge and 154 more...
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Becoming Words
inchoateness
effervescent, albescent, concrescence, fervescent, frondescent, suffrutescent, violescent, viridescent, resipiscence, rufescent, sonorescent, tenebrescence and 131 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1689 more...
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I love you for your sound
loquacious, bumble, klaxon, rhythmicity, lexicon, ghastly, liquidation, labradorescence, springtide, foist, Herculean, cankerblossom and 77 more...
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Main List
cacoethes, cadence, cadence, catalogue, catharsis, chabiscuits, clandestine, coalescence, cocksucker, colimacon, contextual, conundrum and 7 more...
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wacas words
convalesce, despicable, venality, anodyne, gosling, whorl, meretricious, lithe, metonymy, cavern, thoroughbred, frivolous and 44 more...
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steveely's Words
mellifluous, kibosh, zaftig, evidently, ubiquitous, confluence, miscreant, exonerate, ostensible, phantasmagoria, homogenous, hegemony and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for coalescence.
mollusque I submitted my first grant proposal yesterday that mentions those methods.
(Five days till Prolagus coalesces . . .) Jun 9, 2010
ruzuzu Good for you, Prolagus! You're almost there!
*feels slightly smarter just looking at this page* Jun 5, 2010
Prolagus I can barely USE coalescent methods (ABC). Explaining them could be a little too much to ask. :)
(I could try, but not 10 days before my comprehensive exam.) Jun 5, 2010
mollusque Pro? Now that you've nailed concatenation . . . Jun 5, 2010