amálgama — meaning in English
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English meaning
- amalgam noun A metal mixture that has mercury in it.
- amalgamation noun The act of combining things into one, or the merger this produces.
- blend noun A mixture made by combining two or more things smoothly.
Senses
amálgama is used for these senses in English:
- amalgamation The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
- 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.
amalgam — full definition
- noun A metal mixture that has mercury in it.
- noun A mixture made up of several different things.
- noun A metal that forms part of a mixture with other metals.
- noun A mercury-based metal mixture that dentists use to fill holes in teeth.
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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