different between amalgamate vs unify

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgam?tus, past participle of amalgam?re, amalgama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæl???me?t/

Verb

amalgamate (third-person singular simple present amalgamates, present participle amalgamating, simple past and past participle amalgamated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

   Synonym: mix

   Antonym: separate

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.

2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.

Related terms

• amalgam
• amalgamation

Translations

Adjective

amalgamate (comparative more amalgamate, superlative most amalgamate)

1. Coalesced; united; combined.

Further reading

• amalgamate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

amalgamate

1. second-person plural present of amalgamare
2. second-person plural imperative of amalgamare
3. feminine plural of amalgamato

English

Etymology

From Middle French unifier, from Late Latin unificare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?n?fa?/

Verb

unify (third-person singular simple present unifies, present participle unifying, simple past and past participle unified)

1. (transitive) Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.
2. (intransitive) Become one.
   • 2008, Eliza Mada Dalian, In Search of the Miraculous: Healing Into Consciousness,^[1] Expanding Universe Publishing, ?ISBN, page 91:

     Ultimately, all frequencies unify into an unmoving state of zero frequency or vacuum. In other words, all seven sound vibrations or notes unify into silence; all thought frequencies (positive and negative) unify into no-thought or no-mind; and all seven colors of the rainbow unify into pure space that appears dark when it is invisible and as light when it is visible.

Antonyms

• divide

Derived terms

Related terms

• unite

Translations