Coalesce

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  • intransitive verb. To come or grow together into a single mass.
  • intransitive verb. To come together as a recognizable whole or entity.
  • intransitive verb. To come together for a single purpose: synonym: mix.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to coalesce as a single mass.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to coalesce as a single whole or entity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To grow together; unite by growth into one body.
  • To combine or be collected or joined, so as to form one body.
  • Hence To come or join together; unite so as to form one party, community, or the like: as, political parties sometimes coalesce.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To grow together; to unite by growth into one body.
  • intransitive verb. To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To join into a single mass or whole.
  • verb. To form from different pieces or elements.
  • verb. When two, or more, pieces of metal are bonded together (usually via welding) by liquefying the places where they are to be bonded, coalescing these liquids, and allowing the coalesced liquid to solidify. At the end of this process the two pieces of metal have become one continuous solid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. fuse or cause to grow together
  • verb. mix together different elements