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amalgamation
[ uh-mal-guh-mey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or process of amalgamating.
- the state or result of being amalgamated.
- Commerce. a consolidation of two or more corporations.
- Metallurgy. the extraction of precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury.
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Other Words From
- prea·malga·mation noun
- rea·malga·mation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of amalgamation1
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Example Sentences
These were sort of sober witnesses to the madness, so it was an amalgamation of thoughts of different women from the time.
Each model is an amalgamation of many different women; eyes from one, lips from another.
The GOP today is a rump amalgamation of plutocrats and the people who service their air conditioning.
This sparkly amalgamation of sailor suit and negligee lives forever in infamy.
The Gore Vidal character is an amalgamation of Gore Vidal and Edmund White.
Such amalgamation, they considered, need not be effected at one time, but should be accomplished gradually.
Or, if not, were they to exist by amalgamation with the European stocks, and thus contribute the elements of a new race?
This is reflected in the terms of amalgamation with the Great Western Company.
It proposes the amalgamation of civilization with barbarism.
Thus amalgamation of races insures the conditions of primary social contacts most favorable for assimilation.
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