amalgamator

American  

[uh-mal-guh-mayt-er] / əˈmæl gəˌmeɪt ər /

noun

• amalgamators
  plural

1. something that amalgamates, blends, or unites other things.

2. a person or company that is a party to an amalgamation or that negotiates amalgamation for others.

3. Dentistry. a machine or device used in making amalgam for fillings.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• amalgamators
  plural

Example Sentences

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amalgamator amalgamators

In that day the third-class amalgamator of distinct things was often on the bench of quarter-sessions.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith

It is boasted by a Southern company that whereas they were by old methods making twenty-five cents per ton of gold quartz, they now by the use of the latest amalgamator make twenty-five dollars.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

He was asking himself if Porter would have had time to get away into the darkness back of the batteries, when a red-shirted amalgamator stepped to his side.

From Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail or, The Fugitive Professor by Burt L. Standish

The ore-feeder acted as crusher-man, too, the engineer was his own fireman, which, with the battery man and the amalgamator, brought the mill staff down to four,—but they were the best of our men.

From The La Chance Mine Mystery by George W. Gage

He proposes to drive them by two-man power, in order to crush three tons of ore per diem and to test a new patent amalgamator.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

But too often on “AM,” Arctic Monkeys sound less like amalgamators than like imitators.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2013

The sludge was treated in fancy amalgamators, especially in one with a pan and revolving arms, probably evolved out of the inner consciousness of some gentleman in Paris.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton