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Meaning of "amalgam" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AMALGAM

From Medieval Latin amalgama, of obscure origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AMALGAM

amalgam  [əˈmælɡəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMALGAM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Amalgam is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AMALGAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Amalgam

Amalgam may refer to: ▪ Amalgam, mercury alloy ▪ Amalgam, material of "silver" tooth fillings ▪ Bonded amalgam, used in dentistry ▪ Amalgam Comics, publisher ▪ Amalgam, Gauteng, South Africa ▪ Amalgam, fictional character in the Marvel Universe ▪ Amalgam, a fictional organization in Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid ▪ Maya's Amalgam, comic blog of Maya Zankoul ▪ Amalgam Digital, an independent record label based in East Boston, Massachusetts ▪ The Amalgam, a Milky Way-spanning civilization in which a novel and two short stories of Greg Egan are set...

Definition of amalgam in the English dictionary

The first definition of amalgam in the dictionary is an alloy of mercury with another metal, esp with silver. Other definition of amalgam is a rare white metallic mineral that consists of silver and mercury and occurs in deposits of silver and cinnabar. Amalgam is also a blend or combination.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMALGAM


algum
ˈælɡəm
begum
ˈbeɪɡəm
Egham
ˈɛɡəm
jugum
ˈdʒuːɡəm
lingam
ˈlɪŋɡəm
ogam
ˈɒɡəm
ogham
ˈɒɡəm
sagum
ˈseɪɡəm
sorghum
ˈsɔːɡəm
Targum
ˈtɑːɡəm
tergum
ˈtɜːɡəm
trangam
ˈtræŋɡəm
whangam
ˈwæŋɡəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMALGAM

amadavat
amadoda
amadou
Amagasaki
amah
amain
Amakrokokroko
amakwerekwere
Amalekite
Amalfi
amalgam filling
amalgamate
amalgamation
amalgamative
amalgamator
Amalthea
Amaltheia
amandine
amandla
amanita

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMALGAM

Adam
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Amsterdam
cam
Chattagam
cream
cryptogam
dam
dream
gam
Islam
jam
Nam
on the beam
phaenogam
phanerogam
polygam
program
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sam

Synonyms and antonyms of amalgam in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AMALGAM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «amalgam» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of amalgam

Translation of «amalgam» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMALGAM

Find out the translation of amalgam to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of amalgam from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «amalgam» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

合成品
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

amalgama
570 millions of speakers

English

amalgam
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मिश्रण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ملغم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

амальгамы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

amálgama
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিশ্রণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

amalgame
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Amalgam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Amalgam
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

混合物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

혼합물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Amalgam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hổn hợp với nhau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலவையாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

malgama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

amalgama
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

amalgamat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

амальгами
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

amalgam
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

αμάλγαμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

amalgaam
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

amalgam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

amalgam
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of amalgam

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMALGAM»

The term «amalgam» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.379 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AMALGAM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «amalgam» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «amalgam» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about amalgam

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4 QUOTES WITH «AMALGAM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word amalgam.
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Conrad Black
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
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Roy Harper
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
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Jerry Leiber
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
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Zoe Lister-Jones
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMALGAM»

Discover the use of amalgam in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to amalgam and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dental Amalgam: A Scientific Review and Recommended Public ...
Contents: perspectives on dental caries prevention and tooth restoration; highlights of the report; amalgam use and benefits; amalgam risks; alternatives; selection of a dental restorative material; policies on dental amalgam; research; ...
James S. Benson, 1999
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Amalgam: Valaran Chronicles
The First Volume in the Valaran Chronicles is your launch into an epic adventure.In order to protect himself, his town and planet from this ancient enemy Hobs must challenge everything he holds to be true embrace new knowledge and skills; ...
Byron A. Wells, 2012
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General and Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist
NAM E: Amalgam tattoo (focal argyrosis) Etiology: Amalgam tattoos occur because of amalgam par— ticles becoming imbedded within the tissue. Method of Transmission: Not applicable Epidemiology: Amalgam tattoos may occur in all age ...
Leslie DeLong, Nancy Burkhart, 2013
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Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Comprehending a Complete ...
to Gcllert, the amalgam of silver is of superior specific gravity even to mercury, the heaviest of the two ingredients. This, however, is only at a low temperature ; for the amalgam of silver, when heated, floats on the surface of mercury. A solid ...
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, 1813
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Applied Dental Materials
Thermal properties: Amalgam has a relatively high value of thermal diffusivity, as would be expected for a metallic restorative material. Thus, in constructing an amalgam restoration, an insulating material, dentine, is replaced by a good thermal ...
John F. McCabe, Angus Walls, 2009
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Experiments with the Ammonium Amalgam
um amalgam formed cannot swell, but expands laterally, assuming a reticular appearance by reason of the many gas bubbles □which in fact thus become perceptible. If a lump of ammonium amalgam, already in the swollen condition, ...
Charles Mayer-Wetherill, 1865
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Biocompatibility of Dental Materials
burden in subjects who had amalgam restorations re- moved. But they also emphasized that the effects from previous uptake of mercury related to diet and patient age may have had a significant impact on the fecal ex- cretion of it [27].
Gottfried Schmalz, Dorthe Arenholt Bindslev, 2008
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Operative Dentistry: A Practical Guide to Recent Innovations
2.3.4 TheRepairedAmalgamRestoration Repairing a fractured amalgam restoration would seem a cost-effective methodoftreatment inmanycases. Inaddition, thesize ofa repairedrestora- tion can often be kept smaller than if the whole of the ...
Hugh Devlin, 2006
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Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison
Mercury/silver dental amalgam has been surrounded with claims of adverse health effects from the beginning of its use in 1818. It got its start in the United States when two of the five Grawcour brothers, who were well—known dentists in  ...
Jane M. Hightower, 2013
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The Manual of Dental Assisting
The amalgam gun (Figure 24.3) is used to carry the mixed amalgam into the prepared cavity. It is made of plastic or stainless steel. Each gun should be dismantled after every use and checked for fragments of set amalgam or excess mercury.
Leah Vern Barnett, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMALGAM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term amalgam is used in the context of the following news items.
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EPA Prods Dentists to Fill Mercury Disposal Gap
For decades, the U.S. EPA thought of mercury in amalgam tooth fillings ... an amalgam separator to capture mercury from the fillings he extracts. «waste360, Jul 15»
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You're 100% Wrong About Bob Dylan
Both, of course, started by doing mean impersonations of the going thing, in Dylan's case Woody Guthrie and in Sinatra's an amalgam of Bing ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
3
Aldridge's arrival need not mean goodbye to “the beautiful game”
What emerges might be an amalgam of the “beautiful game” offense the Spurs rode to the 2014 NBA title and the Tim Duncan-centric offense ... «San Antonio Express-News, Jul 15»
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Morgood Tools specializes in custom tooling
The name is an amalgam of two of the company's founders, Robert Morley and Ben Goodman. Morgood Tools started in 1945, when three ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»
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'US fuelled the rise of ISIS' conspiracy theories a back-handed attack …
“The truth,” it turns out, is something based on “amalgam” theory taken to an absurd level. An example of amalgam theory would be to say, for example, that ... «Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Jul 15»
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Expo2015 in Milan: Moleskine is The Future of Human Space
In Christiana Donzelli's Moleskine depiction, Uraguay's Pavilion gives us our first taste of human life. Long arching pergolas shade an amalgam ... «Clapway, Jul 15»
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The Comics 8 Ball: Top 8 Worst Comic Book Sequels
Honorable Mention #1: Return to the Amalgam Age of Comics: Everyone loved the original mash-up of Marvel and DC characters, so of course ... «411mania.com, Jul 15»
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Feldberg: For North Jersey Tony winner, performance is about the …
"The character is an amalgam of a real and imagined person. He serves as a kind of touchstone, a barometer, a moral compass." The actor said ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
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With love, from Lahore: Mukaish designs from across border
Even her label, Braahtii, is an amalgam of Marwari 'brahatam' and 'brahati' from Rawalpindi. Speaking to us about her 'never-ending ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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Years & Years, Communion - album review: a slick amalgam of …
Sadly, the sea-change suggested by that BBC Sound of 2015 victory doesn't translate to their debut album: a slick amalgam of 2014's sounds, ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

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