Amalgamation is the process of combining or uniting multiple entities into one form. Amalgamation, amalgam, and other derivatives may refer to:

Mathematics and science

* Amalgam (chemistry), the combination of mercury with another metal **

Pan amalgamation The pan amalgamation process is a method to extract silver from ore, using salt and copper(II) sulfate in addition to mercury. The process was widely used from 1609 through the 19th century; it is no longer used. The patio process had been used t ...

, another extraction method with additional compound **

Patio process The patio process is a process for extracting silver from ore. Smelting, or refining, was necessary because silver does not occur by itself in a natural state like some metals. Instead, it is made up of a larger ore body. Thus, smelting, or refin ...

, the use of mercury amalgamation to extract silver *

Amalgamation (geology) Amalgamation is the process of combining or uniting multiple entities into one form. Amalgamation, amalgam, and other derivatives may refer to: Mathematics and science * Amalgam (chemistry), the combination of mercury with another metal **Pan am ...

, the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two terranes; see

Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone belt The Barberton greenstone belt (BGB) is located in the Kapvaal craton of southeastern Africa. It characterizes one of the most well-preserved and oldest pieces of continental crust today by containing rocks in the Barberton Granite Greenstone Terra ...

Amalgamation paradox Simpson's paradox is a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined. This result is often encountered in social-science and medical-science st ...

in probability and statistics, also known as Simpson's paradox *

Amalgamation property In the mathematical field of model theory, the amalgamation property is a property of collections of structures that guarantees, under certain conditions, that two structures in the collection can be regarded as substructures of a larger one. Thi ...

in model theory * Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction

Arts, entertainment, and media

Amalgamated Broadcasting System The Amalgamated Broadcasting System (ABS) was an ambitious, although unsuccessful, attempt to establish a "third radio network" in the United States. Its primary promoters were the company's president, American comedian Ed Wynn, and its vice-presid ...

, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s *

Amalgamation (fiction) In a work of media adapted from a real or fictional narrative, a composite character is a character based on more than one individual from the story. Use in film *Several characters in the movie '' 21''. *The character Henry Hurt in the docudr ...

, the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things * ''Amalgamation'', a 1994 EP by the band

Pop Will Eat Itself Pop Will Eat Itself are an English alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a grebo act, they changed style to incorp ...

* ''Amalgamation'', the debut studio album by the band

Trapt Trapt is an American rock band formed in Los Gatos, California. Eight studio albums have been recorded to date: ''Amalgamation'' (1999), '' Trapt'' (2002), ''Someone in Control'' (2005), ''Only Through the Pain'' (2008), '' No Apologies'' (20 ...

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Amalgamated (1917 automobile) The Amalgamated was made by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp of Chicago, Illinois, from 1917 to 1919. The Amalgamated Six used a special engine which featured positively opened poppet valves. Instead of disc cams that would only lift, grooved cylin ...

, car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp. *

Amalgamated (organization name) In the business world, amalgamated refers to an organization that has undergone consolidation (also known as amalgamation). Amalgamated organizations may use "amalgamated" in their name to signify that it is the amalgamation of its component comp ...

Amalgamation (business) In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, ''consolidation'' refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a grou ...

, the merge or consolidation of companies *

Amalgamation (land) Amalgamation in English and Welsh land law is a simple process carried out in registered land. It combines neighbouring parcels (holdings) of land which are freehold. In leasehold land interests (which can be at any storey) respective surrenders ...

, the formal combination of adjoining plots; in some jurisdictions distinct from a merger *

Amalgamation (names) An amalgamated name is a name that is formed by combining several previously existing names. These may take the form of an acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the fir ...

, the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names *

Amalgamation (race) Miscegenation ( ) is the interbreeding of people who are considered to be members of different races. The word, now usually considered pejorative, is derived from a combination of the Latin terms ''miscere'' ("to mix") and ''genus'' ("race") ...

, a now largely archaic term for the merger of people of different ethnicities and "races" * Amalgamation, another name for a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ...

, chiefly used in the UK * Amalgamation, in C (programming language) (C) and C++ programming, merging all the source codes of a library into a single header file *

Conflation Conflation is the merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, opinions, etc., into one, often in error. Conflation is often misunderstood. It originally meant to fuse or blend, but has since come to mean the same as equate, treati ...

, also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions * Merger (politics), consolidation or amalgamation, in geopolitics, joining two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipalities, cities, towns, counties, districts etc. into a single entity

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