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Definition of amalgam noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

amalgam

noun
 
/əˈmælɡəm/
 
/əˈmælɡəm/
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  1. [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
  2. [uncountable] (specialist) a mixture of mercury and another metal, used especially to fill holes in teeth
    3. Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French amalgame or medieval Latin amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.
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