| word | coalesce |
|---|---|
| definition | To come together to form one group or mass. |
| eg_sentence | Three local civic groups have recently coalesced to form a single organization, believing it will result in more effective campaigns. |
| explanation | Social movements are often said to coalesce when groups with somewhat different interests realize how much they have in common. Some physicists believe that planets coalesced not from space rocks but from icy clouds of cosmic dust. Some people even study how languages coalesce—for example, the fairly new language Afrikaans, a mixture of Dutch and native languages spoken in South Africa, which only really solidified about 150 years ago. |
| IPA | ˌkoʊəˈlɛs |
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