Definition of "coalesce" [co•a•lesce]

• To grow together; fuse. (verb-intransitive)
• To come together so as to form one whole; unite: The rebel units coalesced into one army to fight the invaders. See Synonyms at mix. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Romanticism: Such massive evidence of the failure to make the various individual readings coalesce is a somewhat melancholy spectacle."
• "He stepped forward to kind of coalesce all this energy around, can we do it?"
• "And quantum phenomena happen even if no observer is there to make them "coalesce"."