Amalgamation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amalgamation \A*mal`ga*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. amalgamation.]
     1. The act or operation of compounding mercury with another
        metal; -- applied particularly to the process of
        separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them
        with mercury. --Ure.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. The mixing or blending of different elements, races,
        societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or
        blending; a homogeneous union. --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  amalgamation
       n : the combination of two or more commercial companies [syn: {merger},
            {uniting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "amalgamation":
     Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration,
     aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloy, alloyage,
     amalgam, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal,
     cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence,
     coalescing, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality,
     combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling,
     commixture, composite, composition, compost, compound, comradeship,
     confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries,
     conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidating,
     consolidation, conspiracy, copartnership, copartnery, eclecticism,
     ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization,
     federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization,
     freemasonry, fusing, fusion, hookup, immixture, inclusion,
     incorporation, integration, interfusion, interlarding,
     interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture,
     joining, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger,
     mingling, mixing, mixture, package, package deal, partnership,
     pluralism, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism,
     syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification,
     union, uniting, wedding