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  2. Coalescence (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Coalescence manifests itself from a microscopic scale in meteorology to a macroscopic scale in astrophysics. For example, it is seen in the formation of raindrops as well as planetary and star formation. In meteorology, its role is crucial in the formation of rain. As droplets are carried by the updrafts and downdrafts in a cloud, they collide ...

  3. Fusion (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    Some dialects exhibit coalescence in these cases, where some coalesce only /tj/ and /dj/, while others also coalesce /sj/ and /zj/. In General American, /j/ elides entirely when following alveolar consonants, in a process called yod dropping. The previous examples end up as /tuːn/ and /əˈsuːm/. Words that have already coalesced are not ...

  4. Phonological history of English consonant clusters - Wikipedia

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    For example, in educate, the /dj/ cluster would not usually be subject to yod-dropping in General American, as the /d/ is assigned to the previous syllable, but it commonly coalesces to [dʒ]. Here are a few examples of yod-coalescence universal in all English dialects: /tj/ → [tʃ] in most words ending -ture, such as nature [ˈneɪtʃəɹ]

  5. Coalescence - Wikipedia

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    Coalescence (linguistics), also known as fusion (phonetics) or vowel coalescence, a sound change where two or more phonological segments with distinctive features merge into a single segment; Coalescence (statistics), the merging of independent probability density functions; In geography, the process by which urban sprawl produces a linear ...

  6. Coalescent theory - Wikipedia

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    Coalescent theory is a model of how alleles sampled from a population may have originated from a common ancestor.In the simplest case, coalescent theory assumes no recombination, no natural selection, and no gene flow or population structure, meaning that each variant is equally likely to have been passed from one generation to the next.

  7. Assimilation (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    Reductive coalescence is the type of coalescence where sound segments are reduced after fusion is made. For example, in Xhosa, /i - lˈalaini/ becomes /e - lˈoleni/ (side). The /a-i/ segment in the first form reduces to /e/. On the other hand non-reductive coalescence have no reduction in sound segments even though there is evidence of fusion.

  8. Phonological history of English consonants - Wikipedia

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    Yod-dropping – the elision of /j/ in certain clusters, depending on dialect (for example, RP has /j/ in new, while General American and Cockney do not).; Yod-coalescence, whereby the clusters /dj/, /tj/, /sj/ and /zj/ become [dʒ], [tʃ], [ʃ] and [ʒ] respectively (for example, education is often pronounced as if it began "edge").

  9. Fluxional molecule - Wikipedia

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    A classic example of a fluxional molecule is dimethylformamide (DMF). [15] At temperatures near 100 °C, the 500 MHz 1 H NMR spectrum of DMF shows only one signal for the methyl groups. Near room temperature, however, separate signals are seen for the non-equivalent methyl groups.