Amalgam

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  • noun. Any of various alloys of mercury with other metals, especially.
  • noun. An alloy of mercury and silver used in dental fillings.
  • noun. An alloy of mercury and tin used in silvering mirrors.
  • noun. A combination of diverse elements; a mixture.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To mix, as metals, by amalgamation; amalgamate.
  • To become amalgamated.
  • noun. A compound of mercury or quicksilver with another metal; any metallic alloy of which mercury forms an essential constituent part.
  • noun. Figuratively, a mixture or compound of different things.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals
  • noun. A mixture or compound of different things.
  • noun. A native compound of mercury and silver.
  • verb. To amalgamate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A combination of different things
  • noun. An alloy containing mercury
  • verb. To amalgamate.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a combination or blend of diverse things
  • noun. an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
    • Word Usage
    "Kors: You wrote Spanglish, arguing that this amalgam is a valid form of expression, not a slumland corruption of two great languages."
    Hypernym
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    alloy  combination  metal  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    amalgamation  bichloride  filling  iodide  oxalate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    admixture  alloy  alloy  alloyage  amalgamate  
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