(n.) The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Above 160 K, the line position in Mb* shifts again and coalesces with the value of Mb for temperatures above 200 K. The shift is accompanied by an increase of the line area, reflecting a slowing of rebinding kinetics.
(2) Thus when the implant consisted of compound cranial half-somites, giant, coalesced ganglia developed, encompassing the entire length of the graft.
(3) Enlargement and coalescence of intercellular spaces gave rise to intertrabecular channels.
(4) Light and electron microscopic examination of the central and peripheral nervous systems showed that intramyelinic vacuolation developed in the white matter of brain and cord within 12 h. The intramyelinic vacuolation in the white matter of brain and cord became more severe with longer survival, vacuoles coalescing and secondary axonal degeneration becoming evident.
(5) Chemical dehydration with 2,2-dimethoxypropane was used to convert an albumin emulsion into an albumin suspension and to reduce coalescence.
(6) Scanning electron microscopic studies of myoblasts from 11- to 13-day-old chick embroyonic breast muscle cultured on collagen-coated glass coverslips showed six stages of development into multinucleated myotubes: (1) growth of flattened, spread-out cells for 20-30 hr following initiation of monolayer cultures; (2) extension of microprocesses (1-150 microM) from cells that have become spindle shaped; (3) contact and adherence of microprocesses from adjacent cells; (4) thickening of fused processes; (5) approximation of the cells; and (6) coalescence of the cells to form a spindle-shaped myotube.
(7) The author describes the experiences, the series of "apprenticeships" and clinical exposures, which coalesced into his education, from teenage days in the New York Madison House settlement, through Harvard undergraduate and graduate work, to Worcester State Hospital as head of psychological services and research.
(8) Very young parasites lack the pigment but deposits of pigment appear and coalesce into dense deposits within the parasite as it grows.
(9) These occured as small beaded and larger coalescent masses which varied in metachromasia.
(10) The focal adhesions which are typical of the spread chick RPE cells in vitro consist of several closely apposed focal contacts, arranged in a parallel fashion, which are often coalesced with each other along their sides.
(11) The lesion begins with cytoplasmic vacuolar degeneration of the arterial smooth-muscle cells, which then progresses to coalescence of vacuoles, leading to disruption of the media, intramural hemorrhage, and periadventitial fibrin deposition.
(12) Four months postbiopsy the patient is asymptomatic but with the coalesced white plaques remaining.
(13) In 10- and 16-day grafts, continuity between ventricular and graft lumina was established and coalescence of graft pieces was apparent.
(14) These lesions, which may be smaller but often are larger than the iris lesions in conventional erythema multiforme, tend to coalesce into plaques and reveal a papulovesicular component at their periphery.
(15) Computed tomographic findings suggest the tumor begins as multiple hepatic nodules that grow and coalesce, forming large confluent masses preferentially involving the liver periphery.
(16) These findings, supported by simulation results, allow one to apply the theoretical results of the coalescence process directly to the allelic genealogy.
(17) This arose by the formation of large glycogen lakes, which coalesced and then lost their glycogen content, and this was accompanied by nuclear irregularity and shrinkage.
(18) Oil bodies isolated from mature maize (Zea mays) embryos maintained their discreteness, but coalesced after treatment with trypsin but not with phospholipase A2 or C. Phospholipase A2 or C exerted its activity on oil bodies only after the exposed portion of oleosins had been removed by trypsin.
(19) The ring-shaped elements of the RV and the moderately electron-dense material of the MDV were released exocytotically somewhat later; these materials coalesced in the perivitelline space to form a new coat (envelope 2).
(20) Following heated public debate over the issue of top-slicing the BBC licence fee, opinion at the broadcasters and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is now coalescing around a less overt method of the corporation helping with Channel 4's future funding needs.
Portmanteau
Definition:
(n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.
Example Sentences:
(1) In news set to shake the music industry to its very foundations, the two boybands are to merge and go full portmanteau with a tour in 2014.
(2) Lifestyle is a convenient portmanteau term which, in relation to the causes of cancer, has come to mean all aspects of the way people behave, whether determined voluntarily or imposed by economic, cultural, or geographic circumstances, including reproduction but arbitrarily excluding occupation.
(3) I am guessing that “makery” is a portmanteau for “made-up bakery”.
(4) Trump’s supporters, like Brexit supporters before them, will say that these are merely the bleatings of the sore losers – the Remoaners, the Grimtons, or whatever portmanteau is conceived next.
(5) We may have only just been given a great new portmanteau term for the type, but the lumbersexual has been here for a while.
(6) Kashiwa Reysol The Sun Kings Sanfrecce Hiroshima Sanfrecce is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San, and an Italian word frecce or arrows.
(7) - One is the ability of digital disrupters (in this case, even within the same company) to take one bit of a newspaper and do it with a conviction, range, depth and passion that a portmanteau print-based newspaper cannot match, especially in digital form.
(8) Most – preferably all – portmanteau words should be banned by newspapers and other media organisations, especially “mansplaining”.
(9) Sunderland (an estimated 13,000) and Southampton (14,000) against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in 1996-97 and 1998-99 are two of the more famous examples; the latter led to the portmanteau "Dellhurst Park".
(10) He was also the co-creator of the supernatural portmanteau film Dead of Night , to which he contributed the much-imitated yarn about the tormented ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) and his demonic doll.
(11) Also, the portmanteau of square eggs is squeggs, and does that sound like something you should be eating?
(12) I’ve got a few better portmanteau words up my sleeve, such as “frackricide”: the lawful killing of someone who refuses to stop talking about fracking; “deathicit”: a plea to be used in mitigation for executing someone who refuses to stop talking about the GERS figures: “My client pleads not guilty to the charge on the grounds of involuntary deathicit.” A “bamsplainer” is a foolish person who insists on using the word “mansplaining”.
(13) It should also be noted that in current Hungarian political usage “liberal” doesn’t have the connotations of “civilised”, “enlightened” or “generous”, it’s a portmanteau for leftwing conventions.
(14) A former banana-ripening warehouse, it had been bought by Albery's father Donald as a rehearsal space for Margot Fonteyn (Donmar is a portmanteau of their first names), then used by the RSC as its London pied-à-terre in the late 70s.