amalgamator

American  

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

noun

plural

amalgamators

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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Example Sentences

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 Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)

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 Standish, Burt L.

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

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 Commons, John R. (John Rogers)

Amalgamators.—The best ore centrifugal or separator is what is called an "amalgamator."

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