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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermixture

Intermixture \In`ter*mix"ture\ (?; 135), n.

  1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
    --Boyle.

  2. Admixture; an additional ingredient.

    In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly.
    --Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intermixture

1590s; see inter- + mixture.

Wiktionary
intermixture

n. 1 A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. 2 admixture#English; an additional ingredient.

WordNet
intermixture
  1. n. any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade" [syn: concoction, mixture]

  2. an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand" [syn: admixture]

  3. the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" [syn: mix, commixture, admixture, mixture, mixing]

Usage examples of "intermixture".

The Bantu races, however, exhibit in some parts signs of Hottentot or Bushman intermixture, and there are legends in some mountain districts, especially Mount Mlanje, of the former existence of unmixed Bushman tribes, while Bushman stone implements are found at the south end of Tanganyika.