noun
Meaning 1
The act of coalescing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
coalescence
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˌkoʊ.əˈlɛs.əns/
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noun
Meaning 2
The merging of two segments into one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure
History
Etymology
From Middle French coalescence and its etymon Latin coalēscentia. Doublet of coalescency. By surface analysis, coalesce + -ence.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: сливане (slivane) — act of coalescing
- Bulgarian: обединяване (obedinjavane) — act of coalescing
- Catalan: coalescència — act of coalescing
- Czech: hromadění — act of coalescing
- Dutch: samengroeien — act of coalescing
- Finnish: sulautuminen — act of coalescing
- Finnish: yhdistyminen — act of coalescing
- Finnish: yhdentyminen — act of coalescing
- Finnish: yhteenliittyminen — act of coalescing
- Finnish: koalesenssi — act of coalescing
- French: coalescence — act of coalescing
- German: Zusammenfliessen — act of coalescing
- German: Zusammenkommen — act of coalescing
- German: Zusammenströmen — act of coalescing
- German: Zusammensetzen — act of coalescing
- German: Zusammenlaufen — act of coalescing
- German: Verschmelzen — act of coalescing
- German: Vereinigen — act of coalescing
- Hungarian: összeolvadás — act of coalescing
- Hungarian: egyesülés — act of coalescing
- Indonesian: peleburan — act of coalescing
- Italian: coalescenza — act of coalescing
- Manx: taah — act of coalescing
- Manx: co-haah — act of coalescing
- Manx: covestey — act of coalescing
- Manx: cohiangley — act of coalescing
- Occitan: coalescéncia — act of coalescing
- Portuguese: coalescência — act of coalescing
- Spanish: coalescencia — act of coalescing
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