Hypertext Webster Gateway: "coalition"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coalition \Co`a*li"tion\, n. [LL. coalitio: cf. F. coalition.
See {Coalesce}.]
1. The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of
separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.
--Bentley.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
coalition
n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact
or treaty [syn: {alliance}, {alignment}, {alinement}]
[ant: {nonalignment}]
2: the state of being combined into one body [syn: {fusion}]
3: the union of diverse things into one body or form or group;
the growing together of parts [syn: {coalescence}, {coalescency},
{concretion}, {conglutination}]
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