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) An amalgam is an alloy of mercury with another metal A metal (from Greek μέταλλον ''métallon'', "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts ...

, the combination of mercury with another metal ** Pan amalgamation, another extraction method with additional compound ** Patio process, 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 ama ...

, 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. This ...

in model theory *

Free product with amalgamation In mathematics, specifically group theory, the free product is an operation that takes two groups ''G'' and ''H'' and constructs a new The result contains both ''G'' and ''H'' as subgroups, is generated by the elements of these subgroups, and i ...

, 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), 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 * ''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 ...

Other uses

* Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp. * Amalgamated (organization name) * Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies * Amalgamation (land), the formal combination of adjoining plots; in some jurisdictions distinct from a merger * Amalgamation (names), 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 (''pronounced like the letter c'') is a General-purpose language, general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly ref ...

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) A merger, consolidation or amalgamation, in a political or administrative sense, is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipality, municipalities (in other words city, cities, towns, etc.), county, co ...

, 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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