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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intermixture \In'ter*mix"ture\ (?; 135), noun
1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. --Boyle.
2. Admixture; an additional ingredient.
In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intermixture
noun
1: any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade" [syn: {concoction}, {mixture}]
2: an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand" [syn: {admixture}]
3: the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" [syn: {mix}, {commixture}, {admixture}, {mixture}, {mixing}]
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