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Definition of Amalgamate
1. Verb. To bring or combine together or with something else. "Resourcefully he mingled music and dance"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Aggregate, Combine, Concoct, Combine, Compound, Blend, Immingle, Intermingle, Intermix
Derivative terms: Amalgam, Amalgamative, Amalgamator, Commixture, Mix, Mix, Mixing, Mixture, Mixture, Unit
2. Adjective. Joined together into a whole. "A consolidated school"
Definition of Amalgamate
1. v. t. To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
2. v. i. To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
3. a. Coalesced; united; combined.
Definition of Amalgamate
1. Verb. To merge, to combine, to blend, to join. ¹
2. Verb. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amalgamate
1. [v -MATED, -MATING, -MATES]
Medical Definition of Amalgamate
1. To make an amalgam. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amalgamate
Literary usage of Amalgamate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer (1881)
"To amalgamate with any other company having objects altogether or in part ...
''To amalgamate " probably authorises a company to acquire the business and ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"However, the golden flakes amalgamate with mercury, which property is not shared
by iron. After showing by appropriate tests that iron is still present the ..."
3. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"Diseases due to specific contagious poisons amalgamate together, or with other
complaints, and form hybrid complaints, or exist together in the same subject ..."
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