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# coalesce

«coalesce» in Mova's school dictionary: **To come together and join to form one larger thing or group** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (coalesce, coalesces, coalesced, coalescing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To come together and join to form one larger thing or group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#m1)

2) (science) For drops, particles or bubbles to merge into one (raindrops coalesce in clouds). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, tiny water droplets coalesce to make raindrops heavy enough to fall; dust and gas coalesced to make stars and planets. In history and news, groups or ideas coalesce into a movement or a plan. It tells the reader separate parts are becoming one. It is formal; everyday English says «join together» or «merge».

### examples

- Tiny droplets coalesce into raindrops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#x1)
- The planets formed when dust and rock coalesced around the young Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#x2)
- Small groups coalesced into one big protest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#x3)
- Our ideas slowly coalesced into a plan for the project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#x4)
- Two puddles coalesced into one big pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#x5)
- The bubbles coalesced into a large one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: coalesced, coalescing. Say «koh-uh-LESS». Formal word. It is not connected with «coal». Noun: coalescence.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «coalesce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coalesce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.