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Webster 1913 Edition
Amalgamation
A-malˊga-ma′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
amalgamation
.] 1.
The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; – applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
Ure.
2.
The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.
Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Amalgamation
AMALGAMA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act or operation of mixing mercury with another metal.2.
The mixing or blending of different things.Definition 2024
amalgamation
amalgamation
English
Noun
amalgamation (plural amalgamations)
- The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
- The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
- (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. [in the US, supplanted after 1863 by miscegenation; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s]
Translations
The process of amalgamating
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The production of an alloy of mercury
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