amalgamation

[ uh-mal-guh-mey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act or process of amalgamating.
2. the state or result of being amalgamated.
3. Commerce. a consolidation of two or more corporations.
4. Metallurgy. the extraction of precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury.

amalgamation

/ əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən /

noun

1. the action or process of amalgamating
2. the state of being amalgamated
3. a method of extracting precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury to form an amalgam
4. commerce another word for merger

Other Words From

• prea·malga·mation noun
• rea·malga·mation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of amalgamation¹

First recorded in 1605–15; amalgam + -ation

Example Sentences

Our version of her boyfriend is sort of an amalgamation of a few different relationships that she had in that time.

From Los Angeles Times

And also the accent that I developed was like a combination of an Orcadian, an Edinburgh, an English accent; it was a sort of an amalgamation of all these different sounds, but it felt like it was coming from me.

From Los Angeles Times

Each shop or closet is an amalgamation of history, energy and life, merchandised for discovery.

From Los Angeles Times

One might not immediately make the connection between data and air, but Ouchhh collective’s “AI Data Portal of Los Angeles,” an immersive tunnel of LED screens broadcasting an abstract amalgamation of Excel spreadsheets, documents, graphs and other digital ephemera, reimagines the city’s cloud data as thousands of tiny colored beads.

From Los Angeles Times

But rather than feeling derivative, in Tarantino’s films this amalgamation of different genres, film influences and pop culture feels fresh and original.

From BBC

Related Words

• amalgam