Coalescence may refer to:
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Coalescence (chemistry)
In chemistry, coalescence is a process
A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.
Things called a process include:
Business and management
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, 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), 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
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''Coalescence'' (Whit Dickey album), 2004
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''Coalescence'' (Andre Canniere album), 2013
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