Crossword clues for coalescence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coalescence \Co`a*les"cence\, 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of coalesce. 2 (context phonology English) The merging of two segments into one.
WordNet
n. the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination]
Wikipedia
Coalescence may refer to:
- Coalescence (chemistry), the process by which two or more separate masses of miscible substances seem to "pull" each other together should they make the slightest contact
- Coalescence (computer science), the merging of adjacent blocks of memory to fill gaps caused by deallocated memory
- Coalescence (genetics), the merging of genetic lineages backwards to a most recent common ancestor
- Coalescence (linguistics), the merging of two or more phonological segments into one
- Coalescence (physics), the merging of two or more droplets, bubbles or particles into one
- COALESCE, an SQL command that selects the first non-null from a range of values
- In geography, the process by which urban sprawl produces a linear conurbation
- Coalescence (album), a 2004 album by jazz drummer Whit Dickey
Coalescence is the process by which two or more droplets, bubbles or particles merge during contact to form a single daughter droplet, bubble or particle. It can take place in many processes, ranging from meteorology to astrophysics. For example, it is seen in the formation of raindrops as well as planetary and star formation.
In meteorology, its role is crucial in the formation of rain. As droplets are carried by the updrafts and downdrafts in a cloud, they collide and coalesce to form larger droplets. When the droplets become too large to be sustained on the air currents, they begin to fall as rain. Adding to this process, the cloud may be seeded with ice from higher altitudes, either via the cloud tops reaching , or via the cloud being seeded by ice from cirrus clouds.
Coalescence is an album by American-born, British-based trumpeter Andre Canniere. It was released on Whirlwind Recordings on 28 October 2013.
Usage examples of "coalescence".
Now if in this coalescence of seeing subject with seen objects, the objects were merely representations of the reality, the subject would not possess the realities: if it is to possess them it must do so not by seeing them as the result of any self-division but by knowing them, containing them, before any self-division occurs.
The Utopian tongue might well present a more spacious coalescence, and hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already presents, a profuse vocabulary into which have been cast a dozen once separate tongues, superposed and then welded together through bilingual and trilingual compromises.
Neither has slept well for a Fortnight, amid the house-rocking Ponderosities of commercial Drayage, the Barrels and Sledges rumbling at all Hours over the paving-Stones, the Town on a-hammering and brick-laying itself together about them, the street-sellers' cries, the unforeseen coalescences of Sailors and Citizens anywhere in the neighboring night to sing Liberty and wreak Mischief, hoofbeats in large numbers passing beneath the Window, the cries of Beasts from the city Shambles, Philadelphia in the Dark, in an all-night Din Residents may have got accustom'd to, but which seems to the Astronomers, not yet detach'd from the liquid, dutiful lurches of the Packet thro' th' October seas, the very Mill of Hell.
But it is still part of matter's realm, born with certain coalescences of matter and energy.
They prevent other coalescences at even a considerable distance from themselves, so that the larger the gas giant, the more likely it is to be the only sizable planet of a particular star.
It is at the period of coalescence, when the Second Empire that is to be is in the grip of rival personalities who will threaten to pull it apart if the fight is too even, or clamp it into rigidity, if the fight is too uneven.
That coalescence left defects behindboundaries and fractures-where physical laws bent and shortcuts were possible.
After mentioning that we'd heard his work was Nobel Prize quality, we'd watch as he tuned out for at least five minutes and talked totally about himSELF while Henry and I floated, as nearly invisible to his mind's eye as those tiny flecks that come out in summer on the beach, coalescences in the vitreous humor, unseen but in the brightest light.