amalgamation

amalgamation

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgamātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: a‧mal‧ga‧ma‧tion

Noun

amalgamation (countable and uncountable, plural amalgamations)

1. The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
   • 1958, Feuerwerker, Albert, China's Early Industrialization‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, LCCN 58-12967, OCLC 459561575, OL 6251041M, page 68:

     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. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
   1. (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
3. (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. [in the US, supplanted after 1863 by miscegenation; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s]
   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter VII, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan:

     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 supposition that William Wilks was the son of Edward Lloyd.

Related terms

• amalgam
• amalgamate

Translations

the process of amalgamating

Danish: sammenlægning c Dutch: amalgamatie ? (formal), vermenging (nl) f, versmelting (nl) f Hindi: समामेलन m (samāmelan) Irish: cónascadh m, malgamú m, meascadh m Manx: colheie m Maori: whakatōpūtanga Norwegian: Bokmål: sammenslåing (no) m or f Polish: amalgamacja f Portuguese: amalgamação f

the result of amalgamating

Danish: sammenlæggelse c Dutch: mengsel (nl) n, mix (nl) m Finnish: kokonaisuus (fi) Irish: malgamú m, cumasc m, cónascadh m, meascadh m Portuguese: amálgama (pt) m or f

the production of an alloy of mercury

Danish: legering (da) c Dutch: legering (nl) f Polish: amalgamacja f Portuguese: amalgamação f

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French: (please verify) amalgamation (fr)

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French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgamātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mal.ɡa.ma.sjɔ̃/
• Homophone: amalgamations

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Noun

amalgamation f (plural amalgamations)

1. amalgamation

Further reading

• “amalgamation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.