coalesce

英 [ˌkəʊəˈles]

美 [ˌkoʊəˈles]

v.  合并; 联合; 结合

过去分词：coalesced　过去式：coalesced　现在分词：coalescing　第三人称单数：coalesces　

TOEFLGRE计算机

BNC.18713 / COCA.12702

牛津词典

verb

• 合并；联合；结合
  to come together to form one larger group, substance, etc.
  1. The puddles had coalesced into a small stream.
     地面上水洼子里的水汇流成了一条小溪。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 联合;合并
  If two or more thingscoalesce, they come together and form a larger group or system.
  1. Cities, if unrestricted, tend to coalesce into bigger and bigger conurbations...
     如果不加限制，城市往往会联合发展成越来越大的集合城市。
  2. His sporting and political interests coalesced admirably in his writing about climbing.
     他在写登山的文章中，把自己对体育和政治的兴趣完美地结合了起来。

英英释义

verb

• mix together different elements
  1. The colors blend well
  Synonym:blendfluxmixconflatecommingleimmixfusemeldcombinemerge
• fuse or cause to grow together

双语例句

• It's good to see various metadata efforts coalesce.
  看到不同的元数据研究互相结合是一件好事。
• The ongoing story of Warcraft is subtly woven into the quest system, and over time will coalesce more and more into a pattern that can be seen.
  “背叛者的消失”是两支人族军队进军Durotar的延续。War3的故事情节被巧妙的交错于任务系统中，过去的一切将被合并成一个可预见的情形。
• Consequently, it must incur a long pause to defragment, or compact, the heap to coalesce many smaller free memory areas into larger free memory areas to satisfy a large allocation request.
  因此，必然会引发长时间的暂停来整理碎片或进行压缩，堆将很多小块的自由内存区域整合为一块大的自由内存区域，从而满足大型分配请求。
• A number of alluvial fans along the base of a mountain may coalesce to form a continuous alluvial slope.
  沿着山脚的一些冲积扇可能联合起来形成连续的冲积坡。
• As the projects begin to coalesce, they promise to compromise the very foundations that form the basis for their display and circulation.
  这些作品集合起来，就极有可能危及它们赖以展示和流通的基础。
• The allocator can't coalesce free space into larger blocks.
  分配程序不能将空闲空间拼合为更大的内存块。
• Afterwards, coalesce into actions and plans.
  随后，凝聚成行动和计划。
• These components usually coalesce around a single responsibility or set of responsibilities.
  这些组件通常结合实现单个责任或一组责任。
• Gravitation compels dispersed matter to coalesce, thus it accounts for the very existence of the Earth, the Sun, and most of the macroscopic objects in the universe.
  引力迫使分散事项凝聚，因此，它占的生存地球，太阳，和大多数的宏观物体在宇宙中。
• The protean set, meanwhile, will feature giant chandeliers, a circular dias that juts out into the audience and20 moving screens that will coalesce at certain points to form a single image.
  与此同时，能千变万化的舞台场景将出现巨大的吊灯，朝观众席延生的圆形舞台，20个移动的电影屏幕将在特定的点上结合形成单一画面。