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uncoalesce

uncoalesce verb: to separate from a coalesced state.

Verb

uncoalesce (third-person singular simple present uncoalesces, present participle uncoalescing, simple past and past participle uncoalesced)

  1. (transitive) To separate from a coalesced state.
    • It is clear that what sound change has coalesced, sound change cannot uncoalesce; and the probability is vanishingly small that analogy and borrowing should proceed in such a way as to restore just the situation that had pertained before the restructuring.1973, Charles Francis Hockett, Man's Place in Nature, page 292
    • The neighbor function can perform one of the following operations: (i) exchange the content of two memory locations; (ii) move the content of one memory location; (iii) uncoalesce a coalesced node into two or more nodes; or (iv) coalesce two memory locations.2007, Gheorghe Almási, Calin Cascaval, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 19th International Workshop, page 169

Forms of uncoalesce

third-person singular presentuncoalesces
present participleuncoalescing
past participleuncoalesced
pastuncoalesced

Origin of uncoalesce

From un- + coalesce.

Questions about uncoalesce

What does uncoalesce mean?
Uncoalesce means to separate from a coalesced state.
What part of speech is uncoalesce?
Uncoalesce is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncoalesce?
The past tense of uncoalesce is uncoalesced.

Words near uncoalesce in the dictionary

  1. uncoacted
  2. uncoagulability
  3. uncoagulable
  4. uncoagulated
  5. uncoagulating
  6. uncoalesce
  7. uncoalesced
  8. uncoalesces
  9. uncoalescing
  10. uncoarse
  11. uncoarsened

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