coalesce
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coalesce /ˌkəʊəˈlɛs/
▶verb come or bring together to form one mass or whole: the puddles had coalesced into shallow streams.
– derivatives
coalescence noun,
coalescent adjective.
coalescence noun,
coalescent adjective.
– origin C16: from L. coalescere, from co- + alescere ‘grow up’.
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