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  2. Fusion (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    This occurred in French and Portuguese. Compare the French words un vin blanc [œ̃ vɛ̃ blɑ̃] "a white wine" with their English cognates , one, wine, blank, which retain the n's. Often the resulting sound has the place of articulation of one of the source sounds and the manner of articulation of the other, as in Malay .

  3. Coalescence (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Representation of the coalescence of two droplets, bubbles, or particles to form a single entity. Coalescence is the process by which two or more droplets, bubbles, or particles merge during contact to form a single daughter droplet, bubble, or particle.

  4. Coalescence (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, coalescence is a process in which two phase domains of the same composition come together and form a larger phase domain. In other words, the process by which two or more separate masses of miscible substances seem to "pull" each other together should they make the slightest contact.

  5. Coalescence - Wikipedia

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    Coalescence (genetics) or the coalescent theory, the merging of genetic lineages backwards to a most recent common ancestor, in other words a model of how alleles sampled from a population may have originated from a common ancestor

  6. Coalescer - Wikipedia

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    While coalescers by definition function as a separation tool for liquids, they are also used, and mistakenly referred to, as filters. In the area of compressed air purification, coalescing filters are used to separate liquid water and oil from compressed air using a coalescing effect.

  7. Circumflex in French - Wikipedia

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    Sylvius used the circumflex to indicate so-called "false diphthongs".Early modern French as spoken in Sylvius' time had coalesced all its true diphthongs into phonetic monophthongs; that is, a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.

  8. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...

  9. Dictionnaire de l'Académie française - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...