uncoalesce

English

Etymology

un- +‎ coalesce

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.
   • 1973, Charles Francis Hockett, Man's Place in Nature, page 292:

     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.

   • 2007, Gheorghe Almási, Calin Cascaval, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 19th International Workshop, page 169:

     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.