amalgamation
Americannoun
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the act or process of amalgamating.
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the state or result of being amalgamated.
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Commerce. a consolidation of two or more corporations.
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Metallurgy. the extraction of precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury.
noun
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the action or process of amalgamating
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the state of being amalgamated
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a method of extracting precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury to form an amalgam
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commerce another word for merger
Other Word Forms
- preamalgamation noun
- reamalgamation noun
Etymology
Origin of amalgamation
Example Sentences
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Certainly Jenna was such an amalgamation of many actresses you could pick out in our world and society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 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
They acknowledged that the "process of change" can lead to differences of opinion, adding that the EA will work with stakeholders so that "improvements in sustainable education are delivered through the amalgamation".
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Like any metropolis, Black Rock City is a diverse amalgamation of backgrounds, perspectives and demographics.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
States, though—especially so-called empires formed by amalgamation or conquest of states—are regularly multiethnic and multilingual.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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