Amalgamation

Amalgamation

Amalgamation, meaning to combine or unite into one form, has several uses:

* Amalgamation (mining), the process of separation of precious metals from ore.
* Amalgamation (history), a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of different ethnicities and "races".
* Amalgamation (business), the result of mergers of companies
* "Amalgamation", an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994.
* Amalgamation (politics), in geopolitics, refers to the joining of two or more administrative units.
* Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction.
* Amalgamation is a construction in model theory, a subfield of mathematical logic.
* Amalgamation (fiction), the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things.
* Amalgamation (geology), the union of two or more continents.
* Amalgamation (names), the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names
* Conflation, also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions.
* Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom
* Amalgamation combines mercury and another element to create amalgam, used in dentistry, chemistry, and mining.
* Amagamation - the combination of several components to produce a whole item.

Amalgamated

Amalgamated usually means something that has undergone amalgamation. However, amalgamated may also refer to (as part of a formal name): ;In business
* Anglo-Amalgamated, a British film production company from the 1930s to the 1970s, responsible for some of the early "Carry On" films
* Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s
* Amalgamated Motor Cycles Ltd
* Fleetway Publications. formerly known as "Amalgamated Press".
* Amalgamated Studios
* Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited
* Amalgamated Fluorodynamics is a fictional company in the Half-Life mod Science and Industry
*Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp.
* Chesham Amalgamations, a British mergers and acquisitions broking company

;In trade unionism
* Amalgamated Society of Engineers (Australia)
* Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union
* In Botswana
** Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union
** National Amalgamated Central, Local & Parastatal Manual Workers' Union, a Botswana-based organisation
* In New Zealand
** Central Amalgamated Workers' Union
** Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union
** Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union
* In the United Kingdom
** Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, a historical British trade union (formerly known as the "Amalgamated Society of Engineers"), now part of Amicus
** Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union
** Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, a British organisation formed during the 1860s
* In the United States and Canada
** Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, a historical trade union
** Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
*** Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, a bank founded in 1923 by the ACWA and now owned by UNITE HERE
** Amalgamated Meat Cutters, a North American trade union
** Amalgamated Transit Union, a U.S. and Canada based union


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  • amalgamation — [ amalgamasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1620; de amalgamer ♦ Opération métallurgique consistant à combiner le mercure avec un autre métal, ou à extraire l or et l argent de certains minerais au moyen du mercure. ● amalgamation nom féminin Action d amalgamer… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • amalgamation — a‧mal‧ga‧ma‧tion [əˌmælgəˈmeɪʆn] noun [countable, uncountable] when two or more organizations amalgamate, often in order to increase profits by cutting costs: • the amalgamation of the regional sales operations into one national salesforce •… …   Financial and business terms

  • Amalgamation — A*mal ga*ma tion, n. [Cf. F. amalgamation.] 1. The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure. [1913 Webster] 2.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Amalgamation — ist der Vorgang der Bildung von Amalgamen (s.d.). Er dient, im großen Maßstabe ausgeführt, zur Gewinnung von Edelmetallen aus ihren Erzen, s. Gold und Silber …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

  • Amalgamation — Amalgamation, Amalgamieren, jede Vereinigung eines Metalls mit Quecksilber (s. Amalgam); dann der metallurgische Prozeß, durch welchen das Gold und Silber aus seinen Erzen mittels des Quecksilbers gewonnen wird …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • amalgamation — index association (alliance), building (business of assembling), cartel, centralization, coalescence, coalition, combination …   Law dictionary

  • amalgamation — (n.) 1610s, noun of action from archaic amalgam (v.) to alloy with mercury (see AMALGAMATE (Cf. amalgamate)). Figurative, non chemical sense of a combining into one uniform whole is attested from 1775 …   Etymology dictionary

  • amalgamation — *consolidation, merger …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • amalgamation — [ə mal΄gə mā′shən] n. 1. an amalgamating or being amalgamated 2. the result of amalgamating; mixture, blend, merger, etc. 3. Metallurgy the extraction of a precious metal from its ore by alloying it with mercury …   English World dictionary

  • amalgamation — UK [əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms amalgamation : singular amalgamation plural amalgamations 1) a process in which two organizations join and make one large one the amalgamation of Setco with Bertrand s 2) a… …   English dictionary

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