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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson