Word a Week | Week #12

Welcome to thetwelfth installment of Word a Week. You can find previous Word a Week words here.

I’ve spent the past several months studying database design in college, and one of the functions withinthe SQL syntaxthat I found intriguing was COALESCE.

This week’s word is:

coalesce– [\ˌkō-ə-ˈles\] (verb) 1. to grow together. 2. to unite into a whole. 3. to unite for a common end. 4. to arise from the combination of distinct elements.

Latin coalescere, from co- + alescere to grow

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