What is Coalescing? A Basic Definition

Coalesce \Co`a*lesce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Coalesced; p. pr.
   &
         vb. n. Coalescing.]
         [L. coalescere, coalitium; co- +
  
         alescere to grow up, incho. fr. alere to nourish. See
  
         Aliment, n.]
   1. To
         grow together; to unite by growth
         into one body; as,
      the parts separated by a wound
         coalesce.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To unite in one
         body or product; to combine into one body
      or
         community; as, vapors coalesce.
      [1913 Webster]

            The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other
            nations.                              --Campbell.
     
         [1913 Webster]

            Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing,
            could not be shaken loose.            --De Quincey.

  
         Syn: See Add.
        [1913
         Webster]

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Wed Jan 7

• The C# ?? null coalescing operator (and using it with LINQ) - ScottGu's Blog

Thu Jan 1

• Burleson: Intelligent Oracle DBA Maintenance: Oracle provides table and index maintenance tools (Oracle 10g online reorganization ) for a very good reason. To keep Oracle running super-fast, Oracle chose not to incur the overhead of coalescing table rows and restructuring indexes during peak update times. That?s why we have the DBA maintenance utilities. The trick is knowing when to use the Oracle 10g DBA tools.

Tue Nov 11

• Balston Coalescing Compressed Air Filters

Wed Jul 16

• Conditional Operator (?:) vs. Null Coalescing Operator (??) in C#

Fri May 9

• More Null-Coalescin g (??) Operator Love

Tue Mar 25

• C# 4.0 Feature Request: "??=" the Lazy load operator... - The Bolla Blog

Sun Mar 9

• CodeProject: The Null Coalescing Operator (??). Free source code and programming help: Null Coalescing

Wed Jan 2

• Air Coalescing Filter Unit - F141, F142, F143 - Legris Airware FRL's

Thu Dec 20

• New Operator in C# 2.0: ?? (null coalescing operator)

Mon Oct 22

• Airware - Products - F141, F142, F143 Coalescing Filter Unit Sub-micronic Filters

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