amalgamation

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgamātiō.

noun

  1. The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
    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). 1958, Albert Feuerwerker, China's Early Industrialization, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68
  2. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
    1. (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal, especially used in antiquity to extract gold and silver from ores.
  3. (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.

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