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amalgam
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic ???????????? (al-mal?am, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from ??????? (maláss?, “to soften”), from ??????? (malakós, “soft”). Doublet of malagma. For the verb, compare French amalgamer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mæl.??m/
- Hyphenation: a?mal?gam
Noun
amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)
- (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
- A combination of different things.
- One of the ingredients in an alloy.
Synonyms
- alloy, blend, combo, compound, conglomerate, mixture
Related terms
- amalgamate
- amalgamation
Translations
Verb
amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To amalgamate.
- a. 1691, Robert Boyle, An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies
- I had once occasion to distill in a small retort some gold amalgamed with such a fine and subtile mercur
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- gold t'amalgam with some six of mercury
- a. 1691, Robert Boyle, An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “amalgam”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Amalgam”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
- “amalgam”, in Mindat.org?[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
- “amalgam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- malagma
Romanian
Etymology
From French amalgame, from Latin amalgama.
Noun
amalgam n (plural amalgame)
- amalgam
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /am?l?a?m/
- Hyphenation: a?mal?gam
Noun
amàlg?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)
- amalgam
Declension
Swedish
Noun
amalgam n
- amalgam
Declension
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fusion
English
Etymology
1555, from Middle French fusion, from Latin f?si?nem (the accusative of f?si?), from fusus, past participle of fund? (“I pour, I melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fju?.??n/
- Rhymes: -u???n
Noun
fusion (countable and uncountable, plural fusions)
- The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof.
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially types of jazz.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
Antonyms
- (nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine): fission
Derived terms
- fusion reactor
- fusion torch
- reggae fusion
- jazz fusion
- nuclear fusion
Related terms
- fuse
Translations
Verb
fusion (third-person singular simple present fusions, present participle fusioning, simple past and past participle fusioned)
- (nonstandard) to combine; to fuse
French
Etymology
From Middle French fusion, from Old French fusion, a borrowing from Latin f?si?, f?si?nem. Doublet of foison.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fy.zj??/
Noun
fusion f (plural fusions)
- (physics, chemistry) fusion (act of melting or liquefying something by heating it)
- (figuratively) mix; mixture
- (nuclear physics) fusion
- Antonym: fission
Derived terms
- en fusion
- point de fusion
Further reading
- “fusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin f?si?, f?si?nem.
Noun
fusion f (plural fusions)
- fusion (act of melting or liquefying something by heating it)
Descendants
- English: fusion
- French: fusion
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin fusi?, fusi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f???u?n/
Noun
fusion c
- (physics) nuclear fusion
- The process whereby two companies merge to become one.
Declension
See also
- fission
References
- fusion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
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