Associations to the word «Amalgamation»

Wiktionary

AMALGAMATION, noun. The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
AMALGAMATION, noun. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
AMALGAMATION, noun. (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
AMALGAMATION, noun. (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. [in the US, supplanted after 1863 by miscegenation; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s]

Dictionary definition

AMALGAMATION, noun. The combination of two or more commercial companies.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke