COALESCENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coalescence mean? 

• COALESCENCE (noun)
  The noun COALESCENCE has 1 sense:

1. the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

  Familiarity information: COALESCENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COALESCENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination

Hypernyms ("coalescence" is a kind of...):

conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting (the act of making or becoming a single unit)

Derivation:

coalesce (fuse or cause to grow together)

coalescent (growing together, fusing)

 Context examples 

Simethicone, a mixture of polydimethylsiloxane and silica gel, reduces the surface tension of gas bubbles, promoting gas bubble coalescence and so intestinal gas transit and evacuation.

(Magnesium Hydroxide/Aluminum Hydroxide/Simethicone Suspension, NCI Thesaurus)

The event, located about 1.8 billion light-years away resulted in a spinning black hole with about 53 times the mass of our sun — that means about three solar masses were converted into gravitational-wave energy during the coalescence.

(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)