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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Amalgamation \A*mal'ga*ma"tion\, noun [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.
2. The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
amalgamation
noun: the combination of two or more commercial companies [syn: {merger}, {uniting}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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