amalgamation

[ uh-mal-guh-mey-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. the act or process of amalgamating.

  2. the state or result of being amalgamated.

  1. Commerce. a consolidation of two or more corporations.

  2. Metallurgy. the extraction of precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury.

Origin of amalgamation

1
First recorded in 1605–15; amalgam + -ation

Other words from amalgamation

  • pre·a·mal·ga·ma·tion, noun
  • re·a·mal·ga·ma·tion, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for amalgamation

amalgamation

/ (əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən) /


noun
  1. the action or process of amalgamating

  2. the state of being amalgamated

  1. a method of extracting precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury to form an amalgam

  2. commerce another word for merger (def. 1)

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