coalesce

  1. Verb.  (context, of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole.
  2. Verb.  (context, of a whole or a unit) To form from different pieces or elements.
  3. Verb.  (engineering) When two, or more, pieces of metal are bonded together (usually via welding) by liquefying the places where they are to be bonded, coalescing these liquids, and allowing the coalesced liquid to solidify. At the end of this process the two pieces of metal have become one continuous solid.

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