Definitions for amalgam

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amalgam a·mal·gam

Spelling: [uh-mal-guh m]

IPA: /əˈmæl gəm/

Amalgam is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in amalgam (aaaglmm).

Definitions for amalgam

noun

1. an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals.
2. an alloy that consists chiefly of silver mixed with mercury and variable amounts of other metals and is used as a dental filling.
3. a rare mineral, an alloy of silver and mercury, occurring as silver-white crystals or grains.
4. a mixture or combination:

Origin of amalgam

1425-75; late Middle English amalgam(e) Middle French Medieval Latin dialectal Arabic al the + malgham Greek málagma softening agent, equivalent to malak- (stem of malássein to soften) + -ma

Examples for amalgam

Well, it was based on an amalgam of bands—Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, and Van Halen.

The quicksilver clings to the gold and forms an amalgam with it.

amalgam can be separated from dirt by washing, almost as well as gold.

Their Newt-defaming spot, “Serial Hypocrisy” is an amalgam of all the ads described above.

This mercury united with both the gold and the silver, making an amalgam.

The speech began as an amalgam of scare tactics and bipartisan appeal.

Will it be difficult to combine tin and mercury, so as to make an amalgam?

These are the places in which the gold, quicksilver, and amalgam are caught.

The struggling technology company is an amalgam of businesses that could be worth more separately than they are together.

Spall says that, faced with the contradictions in the research, they created an amalgam of them.