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.

---

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

---

Other Word Forms

• preamalgamation noun
• reamalgamation noun

Etymology

Origin of amalgamation

First recorded in 1605–15; amalgam + -ation

Example Sentences

A virtual reality HR seminar is hosted by “a computerized amalgamation of all five personalities of the Rat Pack,” an immersive Autoverse, in which actors create situations that somehow amount to a driving test.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Otherwise, “What’s in the Box?” will interest game-show fans by being an amalgamation of all they’ve ever known and loved.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

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?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

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

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

The Cherokee confederacy was thus formed not by conquest but by the amalgamation of previously jealous smaller entities, which merged only when threatened with destruction by powerful external forces.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Related Words

• amalgam