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amalgamation

ә.mælgә'meiʃәn3 senses · 53 ms
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noun/əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən/
  1. 1

    The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.countableuncountable

    • In 1908 Sheng obtained imperial approval for the amalgamation of the Hanyang Ironworks and the Ta-yeh and P'ing-hsiang mines to form the Han-Yeh-P'ing Coal and Iron Company Limited (Han-Yeh-P'ing mei-t'ieh ch'ang-k'uang yu-hsien kung-ssu).
  2. 2

    The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.countableuncountable

  3. 3

    The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.; The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal, especially used in antiquity to extract gold and silver from ores.countablespecificallyuncountable

  4. 4

    The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.countableobsoleteuncountable

    • All the circumstances of William, on the great house farm, show him to have occupied a different position from the other slaves, and, certainly, there is nothing in the supposed hostility of slaveholders to amalgamation, to forbid the suppo

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