Coalescence may refer to:
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Coalescence (chemistry)
In chemistry, coalescence is a process in which two phase domains of the same composition come together and form a larger phase domain. In other words, the process by which two or more separate masses of miscible
Miscibility () is the property ...
, the process by which two or more separate masses of miscible substances seem to "pull" each other together should they make the slightest contact
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Coalescence (computer science)
In computer science, coalescing is a part of memory management in which two adjacent free blocks of computer memory are merged.
When a Computer program, program no longer requires certain blocks of memory, these blocks of memory can be Free a me ...
, the merging of adjacent blocks of memory to fill gaps caused by deallocated memory
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Coalescence (genetics)
Coalescent theory is a model of how alleles sampled from a population may have originated from a common ancestor. In the simplest case, coalescent theory assumes no recombination, no natural selection, and no gene flow or population structure, me ...
, the merging of genetic lineages backwards to a most recent common ancestor
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Coalescence (linguistics)
In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is a sound change where two or more segments with distinctive features merge into a single segment. This can occur both on consonants and in vowels. A word like ''educate'' is one ...
, the merging of two or more phonological segments into one
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Coalescence (physics)
Coalescence is the process by which two or more droplets, bubbles or particles merge during contact to form a single daughter droplet, bubble or particle. It can take place in many processes, ranging from meteorology to astrophysics. For example ...
, the merging of two or more droplets, bubbles or particles into one
* COALESCE, a
SQL command that selects the first non-null from a range of values
* In geography, the process by which urban sprawl produces a linear
conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ca ...
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''Coalescence'' (Whit Dickey album), 2004
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''Coalescence'' (Andre Canniere album), 2013
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