versmelting — meaning in English
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English meaning
- amalgamation noun The act of combining things into one, or the merger this produces.
- 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 act of combining things into one, or the merger this produces.
- noun A single thing formed by blending others together, such as a mixture or alloy.
- noun (chemistry) A method, once used to obtain gold and silver from ore, in which a metal is mixed with mercury to form an alloy.
- noun The mixing of different ethnic or racial groups through marriage and children.
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