coalesce

1 mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, meld, combine, merge]

2 fuse or cause to grow together

English

Etymology

Latin coalescere, from co- + alescere 'grow up'.

Verb

1. To join into a single mass
2. To form from different elements
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 2.

     when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks.

Synonyms

• amalgamate
• combine
• join
• merge
• unite

Translations

Coalesce may refer to:

• Coalesce (band)‎
• COALESCE, an SQL function

See also

• Coalescence

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