English Dictionary

amalgamation

/əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən/

noun

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.

The amalgamation of two companies resulted in a stronger and more competitive business.

意味（1）

The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.

In 1908 Sheng obtained imperial approval for the amalgamation of the Hanyang Ironworks and the Ta-yeh and P'ing-hsiang mines to form the Han-Yeh-P'ing Coal and Iron Company Limited (Han-Yeh-P'ing mei-t'ieh ch'ang-k'uang yu-hsien kung-ssu).

意味（2）

The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.

意味（3）

(specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.

意味（4）

(obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.

All the circumstances of William, on the great house farm, show him to have occupied a different position from the other slaves, and, certainly, there is nothing in the supposed hostility of slaveholders to amalgamation, to forbid the supposition that William Wilks was the son of Edward Lloyd.