English

Etymology
Latin coalescere, from co- + alescere 'grow up'.

Verb
en-verb|coalesc|ing

1. To join into a single mass
2. To form from different elements

#* 2005, w:Plato|Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination|2.
#*: when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks.

Synonyms
amalgamate
combine
join
merge
unite

Translations
trans-top|to join into a single mass
Dutch: versmelten, samensmelten
Finnish: yhdistyä
trans-mid
French: se fondre, coalescer
Portuguese: t-|pt|coalescer
trans-bottom

trans-top|to form from different elements
Dutch: doen versmelten, doen samensmelten
French: coalescer
trans-mid
Portuguese: t-|pt|coalescer
trans-bottom

checktrans
ttbc|German: verschmelzen, zusammenschmelzen

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