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- noun Plural form of
coalescence .
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It might mean that a galaxy which grows by cannibalizing dwarf galaxies or by coalescences ends up with a high LM to DM ratio if the DM halos end up in more or less their original orbits.
Death in the Sky: M31 Shreds its Satellites | Universe Today 2010
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Yet in these coalescences for the Weyl curvature hypothesis to be correct, and for these mergers to form larger elliptical galaxies, the non-conservative “friction” which results from luminous matter (LM) interactions must be sufficient to result in some long term gravitational pull on the dark matter (DM).
Death in the Sky: M31 Shreds its Satellites | Universe Today 2010
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There were splits and coalescences among these faculties.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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Their splits and coalescences had a frequent relationship to the splits and coalescences of the Controls, because it was obviously a mental convenience for a faculty or faculties to correspond with one or more Controls.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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"Because galactic coalescences don't occur much, if any, oftener than Wellingtons within a galaxy do," Kinnison asserted.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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An ignorant, a merely trained or a merely cultured people, will not understand these coalescences, will fondle old animosities and stage hatreds, and for such a people there must needs be disaster, forcible conformities and war.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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These are all deliberate and justifiable suggestions, and they all aim to sacrifice minor differences in order to link like to like in greater matters, and so secure, if not physical predominance in the world, at least an effective defensive strength for their racial, moral, customary, or linguistic differences against the aggressions of other possible coalescences.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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Now, all these three great coalescences, this shrivelling up and vanishing of boundary lines, will be the outward and visible accompaniment of that inward and social reorganization which it is the main object of these Anticipations to display.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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The whole thing will come out as simply as possible without any of your coalescences and combotherations.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Continental Europe through the medium of French; its English language should be already rooting firmly through all the world beyond its confines, and its statesmanship should be preparing openly and surely, and discussing calmly with the public mind of the European, and probably of the Yellow state, the possible coalescences and conventions, the obliteration of custom-houses, the homologization of laws and coinage and measures, and the mitigation of monopolies and special claims, by which the final peace of the world may be assured for ever.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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