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coalescence|kəʊəˈlɛsəns|
[f. L. coalescĕre: see -ence; found also in F. in 16th c.]
The process or action of the vb. coalesce.
1. Biol. The growing together of separate parts.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terapeutyke 2 C iij, To do away that whiche letteth the coition and coalescence. 1666J. Smith Old Age (ed. 2) 224 There immediately follows a Coalescence of all the Vessels. 1872Mivart Elem. Anat. 23 The coalescence of distinct bones. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Coalescence of cells, the formation of tubes, or..spaces, by the absorption of the partition walls of adjoining cells.
2. Union into one mass or body.
1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 418 Either there would be no coalescence at all of bodies, or they would all be gathered together into the same place. 1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sc. 283 The Water of the Cloud, as fast as it is produced by this coalescence and Condensation..must descend in Drops of Rain. 1846Grote Greece (1862) II. viii. 218 Patræ was formed by a coalescence of seven villages.
3. fig. (of things immaterial): Union, combination, fusion.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 616 Were they three independent principles, there could not be any coalescence of them into one. 1846Grote Greece i. xvii. I. 614 The same coalescence of the religious with the patriotic feeling and faith. 1892W. James Text-bk. Psychol. 339 Coalescence of Different Sensations into the Same ‘Thing’—When two senses are impressed simultaneously we tend to identify their objects as one thing... In this coalescence in a ‘thing’, one of the coalescing sensations is held to be the thing, the other sensations are taken for its more or less accidental properties, or modes of appearance. 1896G. F. Stout Anal. Psychol. I. 285 Suppose the components of the one combination are a b c, and of the other a b x; c may be so favored from the outset that it simply displaces x without any feeling of discrepancy arising, and without any attention to the difference. This process I call overlapping or coalescence. Ibid. 287 The gradual transformation undergone by a story as it passes from one person to another is in part at least to be accounted for by coalescence.
4. a. The combination or uniting (of persons or parties) into a single body.
1681Conformist's Plea for Nonconf. 52, I am troubled, that there are any such to be found..in this Church that oppose or hinder a Coalescence. 1873True Reformer III. 99 Not a coalition in any sense..rather a Constitutional Coalescence. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. viii. 235 That thorough coalescence between two individuals which was only possible anciently when they belonged to the same family.
b. = coalition1 4.
1788Sir W. Young Let. in Dk. Buckhm. Court & Cabinets Geo. III (1853) II. 17 It is thought that Fox's party..will propose a coalescence of some sort.
5. A coalesced condition or group.
1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. 287 The Tendencies..to convert accidental..Associations into permanent Coalescences. |