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combining
English
Pronunciation
Verb
combining
- present participle of combine
Noun
combining (plural combinings)
- The act by which things are combined or brought together.
- 1840-41, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
- these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies
- 1840-41, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
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amalgamation
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)
- The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
- The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
- (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
- (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)
- amalgamation
Further reading
- “amalgamation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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