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A combination or blend of diverse things
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amalgam
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Word definitions for amalgam in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
amalgam \a*mal"gam\ ([.a]*m[a^]l"gam), n. [F. amalgame, prob. fr. L. malagma, Gr. ma`lagma, emollient, plaster, poultice, fr. mala`ssein to make soft, fr. malako`s soft.] An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context metallurgy English) An alloy containing mercury 2 A combination of different things vb. (context archaic ambitransitive English) To amalgamate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "blend of mercury with another metal; soft mass formed by chemical manipulation," from Old French amalgame or directly from Medieval Latin amalgama , "alloy of mercury (especially with gold or silver)," an alchemists' word, perhaps an alteration ...
Usage examples of amalgam.
The amalgam was composed of many different metals in the platinum group, the exact recipe of which was impossible to determine, even with current laboratory tests.
Gray pictured the cylinder containing the super-conducting amalgam, how it had levitated.
What if the field around the amalgam affected the tomb, too, like the pan in the experiment.
These ancient alchemists hid the next clue in such a manner that the seeker not only had to solve the riddle, but also had to have a basic understanding of the amalgam and its properties.
We know that once the Landers were on the ground, they came together, kinda merged into larger Amalgam Creatures.
They looked like clusters of pyramidical Amalgam Creatures stuck together into various shapes.
In the Solar System, the Amalgams had focused and directed the gravity beams used to tear up the planetary surfaces and launch them into free space.
Second, the Solar System Amalgams were a few tens of kilometers high at most.
Amalgam Creatures exist elsewhere, therefore giant Amalgams exist here?
Once the worlds are torn up, the Amalgams would merge together and form black box monsters.
I came back to the inn, asked for some large empty bottles, and made the amalgam.
Amalgam of Pohroy, unlike certain other coadunate races, never doubted that the Intervention was full justified.
He accepts the piece, a paper Crick delivered last fall to the Society for Experimental Biology, with the amalgam of trepidation and excitement of asking a pretty wallflower for a dance.
Put less figuratively, well-posed physical questions elicit nonsensical answers from the unhappy amalgam of these two theories.
Nevertheless, with a verbal and gesticular amalgam of Spanish, English, facial expression, and hand signal, the two men agreed on a voyage to Boquichicos, embarking early the following morning.