1. mix together different elements;

   "The colors blend well"
   

2. fuse or cause to grow together

1.联合;合并
If two or more thingscoalesce, they come together and form a larger group or system.

e.g. Cities, if unrestricted, tend tocoalesce 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。
e.g. 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。

1. 结合：当chunk空闲时,如果相邻的chunk也是空闲的,它们可能会结合(coalesce)起来. 实际上,oracle实例启动时,会保留大概一半的Shared Pool,当有内存压力时逐渐释放它们. Oracle通过这种方法限制碎片的产生.

2. 接合：移除(dropping ),及融合(merging)等操作不适用于哈希分区. 但对哈希分区可以进行添加(add)及接合(coalesce)操作. ...

3. coalesce

3. 合并：事件处理器事先在关注的事件源上注册,后者不定期地发表事件对象,经过事件管理器的转化(translate)、合并(coalesce)、排队(enqueue)、分派(dispatch)等集中处理后,事件处理器接收到事件并对其进行相应处理.

4. 组合：A.文件系统的缓冲和组合(coalesce)一般来说,应用自己来调配缓冲,能避免文件系统的缓冲或者在文件系统的缓冲之外工作. 这是基于应用能更加有效的分配缓冲的假设之上. 而且,通过避免文件系统的coalesce,应用更能控制I/O的响应时间.

1. The views of party leaders coalesced to form a coherent policy.
   党的领导人的各种观点已统一为一致的政策。
2. I hope patriotism can coalesce under this kind of idea and express itself.
   愿爱国主义在这样的理念下凝聚起来，表达出来。

• Who had bound himself..never to coalesce with Pitt.

  出自：Ld Macaulay

• The granules coalesce into larger masses.

  出自：C. Darwin

• The elements that were to coalesce as 'Queen Anne'.

  出自：M. Girouard