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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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

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

He had heard the amalgamator, and whirled like lightning and dashed out of the mill and into the darkness.

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

The Huntingdon mill is a good crusher and amalgamator where the material to be operated on is comparatively soft, but does not do such good work when the stone is of a hard flinty nature.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson

The Irishman has above all races the mixture of ingenuity, firmness, human sympathy, comradeship, and daring that makes him the amalgamator of races.

From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

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