different between amalgamation vs conglomeration

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgam?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæl???me???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: a?mal?ga?ma?tion

Noun

amalgamation (countable and uncountable, plural amalgamations)

1. The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
2. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
   1. (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
3. (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. [in the US, supplanted after 1863 by miscegenation; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s]

Related terms

• amalgam
• amalgamate

Translations

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgam?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mal.?a.ma.sj??/
• Homophone: amalgamations

Noun

amalgamation f (plural amalgamations)

1. amalgamation

Further reading

• “amalgamation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conglomeration (countable and uncountable, plural conglomerations)

1. That which consists of many previously separate parts.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:

     A sallow prisoner has come up, in custody, for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application "to purge himself of his contempt," which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is not at all likely ever to do.

2. An instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.

Synonyms

• conglomerate

Translations