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amalgamation

[ uh-mal-guh-mey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or process of amalgamating.
  2. the state or result of being amalgamated.
  3. Commerce. a consolidation of two or more corporations.
  4. Metallurgy. the extraction of precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury.


amalgamation

/ əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən /

noun

  1. the action or process of amalgamating
  2. the state of being amalgamated
  3. a method of extracting precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury to form an amalgam
  4. See merger
    commerce another word for merger


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Other Words From

  • prea·malga·mation noun
  • rea·malga·mation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of amalgamation1

First recorded in 1605–15; amalgam + -ation

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Example Sentences

His first conversations are about how, despite being a genetic amalgamation of the most revered Krogan ancestors, he feels nothing for the Krogan, nor their plight.

However, younger Indigenous groups are combining traditional languages with modern English to spur a new surge in linguistic diversity, with amalgamations such as Kriol being spoken by tens of thousands across Australia.

From Ozy

In that time, their culture was completely integrated into British culture and then became these subcultures of ska and punk, which came later as an amalgamation of the two cultures.

Everybody else was based on someone I knew, or an amalgamation.

Overall, the site appears like an amalgamation of some of the most odious factions of social media, centralized on one platform that’s attracted millions of users.

From Vox

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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