amalgamate
English
WOTD – 04 November 2011
Etymology
From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgama.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/
Audio (AU) (file)
Verb
amalgamate (third-person singular simple present amalgamates, present participle amalgamating, simple past and past participle amalgamated)
- (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
- Synonym: mix
- Antonym: separate
- to amalgamate two races
- to amalgamate one race with another
- 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], 10th edition, London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], OCLC 559505243:
- Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
- To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
- (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
Related terms
- amalgam
- amalgamation
Translations
to combine or blend
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to make an alloy of mercury and another metal
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math: to combine free groups
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Adjective
amalgamate (comparative more amalgamate, superlative most amalgamate)
- Coalesced; united; combined.
Further reading
amalgamate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Verb
amalgamate
- inflection of amalgamare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
amalgamate f pl
- feminine plural of amalgamato