Amalgamation

Quick meaning: Amalgamation is a noun meaning The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.

Meaning

The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.

More Meanings

1. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
2. (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.

Example Sentences

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).

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.

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.

Word Forms

• amalgamations

Synonyms for amalgamation

Depending on context, synonyms include merger, uniting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include merger, uniting, melding, merging, merged, merge.

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