Coalesce, coalescence or coalescent can refer to:
Chemistry and physics
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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 (physics), the merging of two or more droplets, bubbles or particles into one
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Coalescer
A coalescer is a device which induces coalescence in a medium. They are primarily used to separate emulsions into their components via various processes, operating in reverse to an emulsifier.
Coalescers are of two main types: mechanical and ele ...
, device which induces coalescence in a medium
Computer science
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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 act of merging adjacent free blocks of memory to fill gaps caused by memory deallocation
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COALESCE
Coalesce may refer to:
*Coalesce (band), a metalcore band from Kansas City, Missouri, active from 1994 to 1999, 2005–
**Coalesce discography, a list of Coalesce's albums and songs
*COALESCE, an SQL function
*Null coalescing operator, a binary op ...
, an SQL function that selects the first non-null from a range of values
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Null coalescing operator, a binary operator that is part of the syntax for a basic conditional expression in several programming languages
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Coalesced hashing
Coalesced hashing, also called coalesced chaining, is a strategy of collision resolution in a hash table that forms a hybrid of separate chaining and open addressing
Open addressing, or closed hashing, is a method of collision resolution in has ...
, a strategy of hash collision resolution in computing
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Interrupt coalescing
Interrupt coalescing, also known as interrupt moderation, is a technique in which events which would normally trigger a hardware interrupt are held back, either until a certain amount of work is pending, or a timeout timer triggers. Used correct ...
, a technique where events which would normally trigger a hardware interrupt are held back until either a certain amount of work is pending or a timeout timer triggers
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Timer coalescing
Timer coalescing is a computer system energy-saving technique that reduces central processing unit (CPU) power consumption by reducing the precision of software timers used for synchronization of process wake-ups, minimizing the number of times th ...
, an energy-saving technique for processors
Other fields of science
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Coalescence (genetics) or the coalescent theory, the merging of genetic lineages backwards to a most recent common ancestor, in other words a model of how alleles sampled from a population may have originated from a 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 ...
, also known as fusion (phonetics) or vowel coalescence, a sound change where two or more phonological segments with distinctive features merge into a single segment
* 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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Microvoid coalescence
Microvoid coalescence (MVC) is a high energy microscopic fracture mechanism observed in the majority of metallic alloys and in some engineering plastics.
Fracture process
MVC proceeds in three stages: nucleation, growth, and coalescence of m ...
(materials science), a high energy microscopic fracture mechanism observed in the majority of metallic alloys and in some engineering plastics
Popular culture
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Coalesce (band), a metalcore band from Kansas City, Missouri, active from 1994 to 1999, 2005–
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Coalesce discography, a list of Coalesce's albums and songs
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Coalesce / Boysetsfire'', a split music album released in 2000, by the bands Boysetsfire and Coalesce covering each other
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''Coalescence'' (Whit Dickey album), a 2004 jazz album
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''Coalescence'' (Andre Canniere album), a 2013 jazz album
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Coalescent
''Coalescent'' is a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. It is part one of the ''Destiny's Children'' series. The story is set in two main time periods: modern Britain, when George Poole finds that he has a previously unknown sister and f ...
'', a 2003 science-fiction novel
See also
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Coalition
A coalition is a group formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political or economical spaces.
Formation
According to ''A Gui ...
, when people temporarily work together to achieve a common goal
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Coalesse
Coalesse is a United States-based furniture company founded in 2008. It is a division of Steelcase and creates products with the goal of encouraging collaboration. Coalesse is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan with their design headquarters i ...
, a U.S. based furniture company
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Mind coalescence (disambiguation), a term related to collective intelligence
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