coalescence

n.

合并，接合，联合；合生；聚结；愈合

1. A modern galaxy such as the Milky Way involved the coalescence of a million such building blocks.
   像银河系这类现代星系，是由上百万个这样的矮星系接合而成的。
2. The process has been underway since the earliest coalescence of atoms into molecules, into stars, into angelic hosts, and into human creation.
   这个过程自从原子最早的结合成分子，结合成星辰，结合成天使，结合成人类的创造就已经在进行了。
3. The same kind of reasoning can be used to explain vertical coalescence of bubbles in fluidized beds.
   人们可用同样推理解释流化床中气泡在垂直方向上的合并。
4. They appear to arise either during births of black holes in the cores of dying massive stars or from the coalescence of binary neutron stars or black holes.
   它们似乎起源于濒死恒星的核心形成黑洞的过程，或来自于双星系统里中子星或黑洞的合并。

Inferring coalescence times from DNA sequence data.
Bubble Coalescence and Break-Up in Air Sparged Bubble Columns
Predicting nuclear gene coalescence from mitochondrial data: the three-times rule.
Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence
Inconsistency of phylogenetic estimates from concatenated data under coalescence.
STEM: species tree estimation using maximum likelihood for gene trees under coalescence
Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Coalescence (Aggregation, Coagulation): a Review of the Mean-Field Theory for Probabilists
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence.
Perspective: gene divergence, population divergence, and the variance in coalescence time in phylogeographic studies.
Edwards, S. V. & Beerli, P. Gene divergence, population divergence, and the variance in coalescence time in phylogeographic studies...