Amalgamation

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
  • Patio process, the use of mercury amalgamation to extract silver
  • Pan amalgamation, another extraction method with additional compound
• Amalgamation (geology), the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two continents, blocks or terranes
• 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

Other uses

• Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies
• Amalgamation (land), the formal combination of adjoining plots. In some jurisdictions distinct from Merger which refers in English land to the two classes of title in common ownership usually with a registered intention to merge them. In this way a lease can be terminated (see leasehold estate).
  • Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom
• Merger (politics), in geopolitics, 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, an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994
• 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
• In C_(programming_language) and C++ programming - merging all the source codes of a library into a single header file. May make program faster with the compilers not supporting whole program optimization and greatly increases simplicity of use.

See also

• Amalgam (disambiguation)