coalesce

英 [ˌkəʊəˈles]

美 [ˌkoʊəˈles]

v.  合并; 联合; 结合

过去分词：coalesced　过去式：coalesced　现在分词：coalescing　第三人称单数：coalesces　

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BNC.18713 / COCA.12702

牛津词典

verb

• 合并；联合；结合
  to come together to form one larger group, substance, etc.
  1. The puddles had coalesced into a small stream.
     地面上水洼子里的水汇流成了一条小溪。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 联合;合并
  If two or more thingscoalesce, they come together and form a larger group or system.
  1. Cities, if unrestricted, tend to coalesce into bigger and bigger conurbations...
     如果不加限制，城市往往会联合发展成越来越大的集合城市。
  2. His sporting and political interests coalesced admirably in his writing about climbing.
     他在写登山的文章中，把自己对体育和政治的兴趣完美地结合了起来。

英英释义

verb

• mix together different elements
  1. The colors blend well
  Synonym:blendfluxmixconflatecommingleimmixfusemeldcombinemerge
• fuse or cause to grow together

双语例句

• The protean set, meanwhile, will feature giant chandeliers, a circular dias that juts out into the audience and20 moving screens that will coalesce at certain points to form a single image.
  与此同时，能千变万化的舞台场景将出现巨大的吊灯，朝观众席延生的圆形舞台，20个移动的电影屏幕将在特定的点上结合形成单一画面。
• Because coalesce filter cartridge adopts hydrophilic material, so the little water drips will be coalesced on filter layer surface.
  又由于聚结滤芯采用亲水性材料，微小的水滴更是吸附在滤层表面从而造成水滴的聚结。
• Cities, if unrestricted, tend to coalesce into bigger and bigger conurbations
  如果不加限制，城市往往会联合发展成越来越大的集合城市。
• That series of scratches coalesce to form a manifestation of an idea.
  这一系列涂鸦变成了一种思想的体现。
• It's good to see various metadata efforts coalesce.
  看到不同的元数据研究互相结合是一件好事。
• As the disease progresses, the mucosal erosions coalesce to linear ulcers that undermine remaining mucosa.
  随着病程的发展，粘膜损害发生融合，破坏残留的粘膜以至形成线性溃疡。
• Consequently, it must incur a long pause to defragment, or compact, the heap to coalesce many smaller free memory areas into larger free memory areas to satisfy a large allocation request.
  因此，必然会引发长时间的暂停来整理碎片或进行压缩，堆将很多小块的自由内存区域整合为一块大的自由内存区域，从而满足大型分配请求。
• Gas bubbles coalesce to grow as they rise.
  气泡在上升中聚集成长。
• The only way to nudge China towards common goals is to draw it into the international system such that its own priorities coalesce with those of other nations.
  推动中国走向共同目标的唯一方法，是让其加入国际体系，这样中国自身的重点就会与其它国家吻合。
• A number of alluvial fans along the base of a mountain may coalesce to form a continuous alluvial slope.
  沿着山脚的一些冲积扇可能联合起来形成连续的冲积坡。