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 (element), mercury with another metal. It may be a liquid, a soft paste or a solid, depending upon the proportion of mercury. These alloys are formed through metallic bonding, with the electrostatic attractive fo ...

, 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 ...

, 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 * Amalgamation paradox in probability and statistics, also known as Simpson's paradox * Amalgamation property 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), sometimes referred to as the Amalgamated Network (or simply Amalgamated) was an ambitious, although unsuccessful, attempt to establish a national "third radio network" in the United States. Its primary pr ...

, 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 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 incorpo ...

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

Trapt Trapt is an American rock band formed in Los Gatos, California. Nine studio albums have been recorded to date: ''Amalgamation'' (1999), '' Trapt'' (2002), '' Someone in Control'' (2005), '' Only Through the Pain'' (2008), '' No Apologies'' (2 ...

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Amalgamated (1917 automobile) The Amalgamated was made by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp of Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, a ...

, 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 gro ...

, 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 surrende ...

, 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 fi ...

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

Amalgamation (race) Miscegenation ( ) is marriage or genetic admixture, admixture between people who are members of different race (human categorization), races or Ethnicity, ethnicities. It has occurred many times throughout history, in many places. It has occasion ...

, 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 (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

, chiefly used in the UK * Amalgamation, in

C (programming language) C (''pronounced'' '' – like the letter c'') is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of ...

Conflation Conflation is the merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, or opinions into one, often in error. Conflation is defined as 'fusing blending', but is often used colloquially as 'being equal to' - treating two similar but disparate c ...

, 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 municipalities (in other words cities, towns, etc.), counties, districts, etc., int ...

, 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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