Other forms: coalesced, coalescing, coalesces
To coalesce is to come together and form one whole. The groups coalesced, coalesce around a leader, coalescing droplets.
It is used of parties, opinions and liquids alike, and the point is that the parts stop being separate. In politics, coalescing around a candidate is the moment a field of rivals becomes a single campaign.
1verbcoalesceTo come together and form one whole.
“The small protest groups coalesced into a single national movement.”
coalesce is a merging.
Latin coalescere means to grow together, from co- plus alescere, to grow up.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂el-
Latin
coalēscō
English, today
coalesce
Built from
From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA