amalgamation

Definitions

1. The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
   countable, uncountable
2. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
   countable, uncountable
3. The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal, especially used in antiquity to extract gold and silver from ores.
   countable, specifically, uncountable
4. The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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).”

“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.”

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