amalgamation
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- noun
- /əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən/
- Formal
- The new company is an amalgamation of several smaller firms that merged to increase efficiency.
- cultural amalgamation
- process of amalgamation
- racial amalgamation
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- Look again, my life is an amalgamation of the things I did bad and the things I did good.
- He's a great believer in the the mix, the the amalgamation of science and spirituality, but extreme pain, but not attached to his body, right?
- So this complex amalgamation of sounds,
- You know, what I'm finding recently is that, you know, Amalgamations and you know, combining sub genres is really cool.
Examples
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The various subtests and scales represent an amalgamation of cognitive processes varying from simple memory to abstract problem solving.
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So initially this model is the amalgamation of a lot of different designs.
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Look again, my life is an amalgamation of the things I did bad and the things I did good.
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It's an amalgamation of different things, a bunch of things.
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It's an amalgamation of magic and science.
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First, it is the amalgamation of knowledge from chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, and various engineering fields.
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She entered the world during a period of mass cultural amalgamation.
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Thus, an individual's ecology consists of the amalgamation of the multiple cultural contexts in which the person lives.
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Like Shelburne, the ACS is a relatively harmonious amalgamation of great and humble aspirations and styles.
Academic text (1993) -
European architectural interiors in Zanzibar were an amalgamation of Victorian, British Raj, and coastal East African display logics.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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A group of different things or people that are together
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Joining two or more companies to become one
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To join several groups or parts together to make one stronger unit
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A joining of two different styles into one, for example music and food
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A process that brings separate people or groups together to form one unit
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Brings people or things together into one group
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A meeting where people, ideas, or things come together
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An act of combining things into a single whole
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A group of things joined together as one whole
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3.0
The act of joining two or more things into one
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Putting two or more things together to make one new thing
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Joining two or more things to make one
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The joining of separate parts to form one whole
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The joining of separate people, groups, or companies into one
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Growing or joining together to form a single whole
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An action that brings two or more things together
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Bringing parts together into one complete whole
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To join things that were separated back into one group
Separate parts or cells stick together to form one group
Antonyms
How Combined
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- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
amalgamation = amalgamate (semi-transparent) = amalgam + ation
The word is formed regularly from 'amalgamate' + '-ation', but the extension from a literal metal mixture to merging organisations is somewhat specialised and may not be obvious to all learners.
Etymology
The word amalgamation comes from amalgam, an old word for a 'mixture' (originally a blend of metals and mercury) used to make different metals join together. So an amalgamation is the process of joining or combining parts into one whole.