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calesce

UK/kəˈlɛs/US/kəˈlɛs/

calesce verb: to undergo calescence; to become or grow warm; to heat up; to warm; to glow with heat.

Verb

calesce (third-person singular simple present calesces, present participle calescing, simple past and past participle calesced)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To undergo calescence; to become or grow warm; to heat up; to warm; to glow with heat.
    • Now [warming it over the spirit lamp] here it is becoming yellow again, and that is all because its attraction of cohesion is changed. And what will you say to me when I tell you that this piece of common charcoal is just the same thing, only differently calesced, as the diamonds which you wear?1874, Michael Faraday, “Lecture II: Gravitation-Cohesion”, in On the Various Forces of Nature, London: Chatto and Windus, page 58
    • 23. Drops of Water. — In answer to E. J. Pond's query in Science for Jan. 20, it seems to me that the phenomenon is explainable in the same way as the related phenomenon of drops of water on a hot stove; […] The small drops that fall from the oar-blade will float a short time before calescing, even...1888 February 3, C. M. Wirick, Science, volume XI, number 261, page 62, column 2

Forms of calesce

third-person singular presentcalesces
present participlecalescing
past participlecalesced
pastcalesced

Origin of calesce

From Latin calescere.

Words that rhyme with calesce

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Questions about calesce

What does calesce mean?
Calesce means to undergo calescence; to become or grow warm; to heat up; to warm; to glow with heat.
What part of speech is calesce?
Calesce is a verb.
How do you pronounce calesce?
Calesce is pronounced /kəˈlɛs/ (UK).
What is the past tense of calesce?
The past tense of calesce is calesced.

Words near calesce in the dictionary

  1. Calers
  2. calerythrin
  3. cales
  4. calesa
  5. calesas
  6. calesce
  7. calescence
  8. calescent
  9. calexcitin
  10. Calexico
  11. Calexit

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