versmelting — meaning in English
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English meaning
- amalgamation noun The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
- merger noun The joining of two or more organizations, especially companies, into a single one.
Senses
versmelting is used for these senses in English:
- amalgamation The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
- merger The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
- portmanteau word (linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.
amalgamation — full definition
- noun The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
- noun The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
- noun The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal, especially used in antiquity to extract gold and silver from ores.
- noun The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.