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amalgamation

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From Medieval Latin amalgamātiō.

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amalgamation (countable and uncountable, plural amalgamations)

  1. The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
    • 1958, Albert Feuerwerker, China's Early Industrialization‎[1], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
      In 1908 Sheng obtained imperial approval for the amalgamation of the Hanyang Ironworks and the Ta-yeh and P'ing-hsiang mines to form the Han-Yeh-P'ing Coal and Iron Company Limited (Han-Yeh-P'ing mei-t'ieh ch'ang-k'uang yu-hsien kung-ssu).
    • 1960 January, M. D. Greville, “Scottish Railways in 1860”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
      There was, however, one proposal which, had it reached fruition, might have had far-reaching effects. This was for the amalgamation of the Caledonian, the Edinburgh & Glasgow, and the Scottish Central Railways, for which a Bill was promoted, but rejected by the Parliamentary Committee on the grounds that the preamble was not proved.
  2. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
    1. (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal, especially used in antiquity to extract gold and silver from ores.
  3. (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. [in the US, supplanted after 1863 by miscegenation; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s]
    • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter VII, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
      All the circumstances of William, on the great house farm, show him to have occupied a different position from the other slaves, and, certainly, there is nothing in the supposed hostility of slaveholders to amalgamation, to forbid the supposition that William Wilks was the son of Edward Lloyd.

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Medieval Latin amalgamātiōnem.

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    amalgamation f (plural amalgamations)

    1. amalgamation

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