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AMALGAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A combination or blend of diverse things
Example:
his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("amalgam" is a kind of...):
combination (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)
Derivation:
amalgamate (to bring or combine together or with something else)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("amalgam" is a kind of...):
alloy; metal (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten)
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