Amalgamation

In general, amalgamation is the process of combining or uniting multiple entities into one form.

Amalgamate and its derivatives may refer to:

• Metals and science
  • In mining, amalgamation was historically used in the patio process and pan amalgamation to recover precious metals from ore by combining them with mercury.
    • Amalgamation combines mercury and another element to create amalgam (chemistry), used in dentistry, chemistry, and mining
  • In geology it refers to the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two continents, blocks or terranes
• Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies
  • Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom
• Amalgamation (politics), in geopolitics, refers to the joining of two or more administrative units
• Amalgamation (names), the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names
• Amalgamation (fiction), the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things
• Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of different ethnicities and "races"
• Amalgamation (military unit), the consolidation of military units, usually traditional regiments, into a new unit carrying the lineage, history, traditions, and identity of both
• Amalgamation, an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994
• Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction
• Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp.
• Amalgamated (organization name)
• Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s
• Conflation, also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions