amalgamation

American  

[uh-mal-guh-mey-shuhn] / əˌmæl gəˈmeɪ ʃən /

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.

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amalgamation British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• preamalgamation noun
• reamalgamation noun

Etymology

Origin of amalgamation

First recorded in 1605–15; amalgam + -ation

Example Sentences

But these amalgamations of algorithms aren't "intelligent" in any real sense of the word, as we have argued previously; as a result, they tend to often spit out misinformation and falsehoods.

From Salon

And, he instilled in them the importance of being more than their circumstances but rather an amalgamation of their dreams.

From Salon

Two people died and Police Scotland earned a criminal conviction over a series of failures linked to a staff shortage that followed the amalgamation of call centres.

From BBC

Moments later, he came back dressed as an amalgamation of LeVar Burton’s roles as an enslaved person in “Roots” and space engineer in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

From Washington Post

The organisation is believed to have been formed during the summer of 2012, from an amalgamation of previously disparate dissident republican organisations.

From BBC

Related Words

• amalgam