Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing together; uniting so as to form one body: in botany, properly applied to the organic cohesion of similar parts.
- noun One who or that which coalesces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
coalescence - noun Any agent that causes coalesence
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing together, fusing
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Examples
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The coalescent is a tree with maximal score, which can explain observed distribution of markers in population with maximal likelihood.
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We have a political class in thrall to this orthodoxy in three shades – true blue Tories, custard-coloured coalescent Tories and Financial Times pink Tories.
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(Edited to add: Thanks to coalescent and andrewducker for pointing out ajr's posts on this here and here.)
Linkspam for 12-4-2010 coalescent 2010
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Here only one trait was studied, a mutation of blue eyes, but a lot of markers neutral mutations in mtDNA were used in construction of coalescent explaining origin of this trait.
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It underwent several stages leading up to and including the period of coalescent nativism during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936 – 41).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Jun. 27th, 2009 at 10:19 PM ladymoonray and coalescent--I hope you didn't think you were really going to get away unscathed.
Just In Time! ladymoonray 2009
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EDIT: coalescent encourages folks to go over and discuss Radiant Car, though.
Many Things Make a Post yuki_onna 2009
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My thanks to coalescent for posting an abbreviated vrsion of this on his lj; to the people four! who've visited me; and, though they won't read this, to the anonymous commuters who helped me on my way.
grahamsleight: Breaking news grahamsleight 2009
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Results from nested clade analysis and coalescent-based analyses suggest historical population growth and gene flow that collectively may have homogenized gene frequencies.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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My LiveJournal Sitcomfastfwd And Me (QVC, 7:00): fastfwd (Vince Vaughn) uses coalescent (Omar Epps)'s water bottle.
Attention! This Is Important! fastfwd 2009
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