amalgam
noun/əˈmælɡəm/
/əˈmælɡəm/
- [countable, usually singular] amalgam (of something) (formal) a mixture or combination of things
- The film script is an amalgam of all three books.
- an amalgam of several companies and organizations
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- [uncountable] (specialist) a mixture of mercury and another metal, used especially to fill holes in teeth
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French amalgame or medieval Latin amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.
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