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. commerce another word for merger

Other Word Forms

• preamalgamation noun
• reamalgamation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of amalgamation¹

First recorded in 1605–15; amalgam + -ation

Example Sentences

My character is an amalgamation of fabulous women.

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Certainly Jenna was such an amalgamation of many actresses you could pick out in our world and society.

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Who are we creatively if not an amalgamation of all we’ve seen, the people we know, the ways in which we originally consumed them?

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Some of the characters feel familiar — they’re an amalgamation of personalities from “Cheer.”

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"We have no clarity on a future site for Causeway Academy and how the amalgamation will work going forward," she told BBC News NI.

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Related Words

• amalgam