amalgamation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=mal=gam=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

amalgamation, n. [Cf. F. amalgamation.].

•  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]
•  The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

amalgamation

Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloy, alloyage, amalgam, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalescing, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling, commixture, composite, composition, compost, compound, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidating, consolidation, conspiracy, copartnership, copartnery, eclecticism, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusing, fusion, hookup, immixture, inclusion, incorporation, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, joining, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, package, package deal, partnership, pluralism, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, uniting, wedding

ROGET THESAURUS

amalgamation

Combination

N combination, mixture, junction, union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization, alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid, resultant, impregnation, combined, impregnated with, ingrained, imbued inoculated.