Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite. synonym: mix.
  • intransitive verb To mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury.
  • intransitive verb To become combined; unite.
  • intransitive verb To unite or blend with another metal. Used of mercury.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mix or alloy (a metal) with quicksilver. See amalgamation.
  • In general, to mix so as to make a compound; blend; unite; combine.
  • To form an amalgam; blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
  • To combine, unite, or coalesce, generally: as, two organs or parts amalgamate as the result of growth.
  • United or amalgamated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
  • intransitive verb To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend.
  • transitive verb To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
  • transitive verb To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine
  • adjective Coalesced; united; combined.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
  • verb To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
  • verb transitive, mathematics To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
  • adjective coalesced; united; combined

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective joined together into a whole
  • verb to bring or combine together or with something else

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle Latin amalgamāt-us, past participle of amalgamā-re, amalgama.

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Examples

  • When the word "amalgamate" escaped his lips a storm of hisses and jeers drowned further speech and he quickly crouched down in his seat.

    Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel 1902

  • When the word "amalgamate" escaped his lips a storm of hisses and jeers drowned further speech and he quickly crouched down in his seat.

    Imperium In Imperio 1899

  • Hereford United According to the club: Before the formation of Hereford United there were four leading amateur clubs in Hereford and it was believed that a higher class of football could be sustained if they were to amalgamate.

    Are Newcastle United England's only united United? | The Knowledge 2011

  • To put it in the language of evolutionary psychology, "The richly textured representations we experience as feeling constitute our conscious access to a high-bandwidth system of computational devices and program interfaces that amalgamate valuation information with other representations to guide decision making and to recalibrate decisions in an ongoing way."

    Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Are Emotions Anyway? (Part 4) Valerie Tarico 2010

  • With the last sentence in her article, it seemed as if in the effort to amalgamate all Muslims into one mass, Ayaan Hirsi Ali established that the only "intolerant" one was herself.

    Noah Fitzgerel: Not All Islam Is Radical Islam Noah Fitzgerel 2012

  • Drawn to the particulars, we try to amalgamate them into an illusionistic head, then get seduced by details again, unable to reconcile the two readings.

    The Proto-Surrealist Karen Wilkin 2010

  • To put it in the language of evolutionary psychology, "The richly textured representations we experience as feeling constitute our conscious access to a high-bandwidth system of computational devices and program interfaces that amalgamate valuation information with other representations to guide decision making and to recalibrate decisions in an ongoing way."

    Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Are Emotions Anyway? (Part 4) Valerie Tarico 2010

  • They amalgamate seamlessly into any modern living room and add multitude of warmth, charm and seductive beauty to the room.

    Roll Fire from Conmoto 2009

  • My bet is that they're going to skip or amalgamate a few books, or go the Dexter route and splinter off into a drastically different canon the most logical choice.

    Ask Matt: Entourage, Ringer, Closer, Torchwood and More! 2011

  • Analysts are recommending the companies shut more of their facilities, or even amalgamate.

    Caught in a Steel Trap David Fickling 2011

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  • amalgam, too, of course.

    May 29, 2010