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Definitions: Amalgam |
AmalgamNoun1. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams. 2. A combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amalgam" was first used: 1471. (references) |
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Chemistry | Metallic alloy ; dental filling. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | A product formed by mercury and another metal in an electrolytic cell. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | A basic box with a thumb keyboard that reliably handles e-mails. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A naturally occurring alloy of silver with mercury; mercurian silver. It is found in the oxidation zone of silver deposits and as scattered grains in cinnabar ores. Syn:argental mercur b. A general term for alloys of mercury with one or more of the well-known metals (except iron and platinum); esp. an alloy of mercury with gold, containing 40% to 60% gold, and obtained from the plates in a milltreating gold ore. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An amalgam is an alloy of mercury. Most metals are soluble in mercury, but some (such as iron) are not. Amalgams are commonly used in dental fillings.
Ammonium has been isolated in amalgam, but not as the pure pseudometal - it decomposes to ammonia and hydrogen.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amalgam."
Synonym: AmalgamSynonym: dental amalgam (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: amal (metallurgy). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combination | Alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid; resultant, impregnation. |
Mixture | Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Amalgam |
| English words defined with "amalgam": Amalgama, Amalgamator ♦ dental amalgam ♦ Fire gilding ♦ Glass silvering, Gold amalgam ♦ Quicksilvered ♦ silver, Sodium amalgam ♦ Water gilding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amalgam": amalgam barrel, amalgam pan, amalgam plate, amalgam retort, amalgam treatment, amalgamation process ♦ black concentrate, blanket sluice ♦ cake of gold, cold soldering ♦ Dental Polishing, DENTAL-AMALGAM PROCESSOR ♦ flow of amalgam ♦ mosaic silver ♦ palladium amalgam, plate amalgamation ♦ special-machine operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Amalgam" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (amalgam), Romanian (amalgam, blend, congeries), Serbo-Croatian (amalgam), Swedish (amalgam). |
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Screenplays | You know, you-- you got a lovely family, and I'm a god-damn amalgam! (Parenthood; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) You're an amalgam. (Parenthood; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Amalgam I-IV (1974) | |
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Economic History | Mauritius | Mauritian law is an amalgam of French and British legal traditions. (references) |
India | Seeking a mandate at the polls for her policies, she called for elections in 1977, only to be defeated by Moraji Desai, who headed the Janata Party, an amalgam of five opposition parties. (references) | |
Syria | The judicial system in Syria is an amalgam of Ottoman, French, and Islamic laws, with three levels of courts: courts of first instance, courts of appeals, and the constitutional court, the highest tribunal. (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | Export of imported goods in their original form is not allowed except for parts obtained from ship breaking, scrapped battery cells, waste dental amalgam, waste exposed x-ray films, items imported against back to back letters of credit and items whose re-export F.O.B price is at least 2.5 percent higher than their C&F price. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Amalgam" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Amalgam" is used about 138 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.55% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 138 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amalgam": dental amalgam ♦ flow of amalgam ♦ Gold amalgam ♦ sodium amalgam. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
amalgam | 139 | amalgam dental filling | 4 |
amalgam comic | 43 | amalgam multiple sclerosis | 4 |
amalgam filling | 30 | amalgam separator | 4 |
dental amalgam | 28 | silver amalgam | 3 |
mercury amalgam | 17 | amalgam character | 3 |
amalgam restoration | 16 | amalgam art comic | 3 |
amalgam universe | 13 | amalgam virgo | 3 |
amalgam as dental filling most people recognize silver | 9 | allergy amalgam | 3 |
amalgam füllungen karies | 6 | amalgam character comic | 3 |
amalgam free | 6 | amalgam illness | 2 |
amalgam list mailing | 6 | amalgam mercury removal | 2 |
amalgam removal | 5 | amalgam composite | 2 |
after amalgam before | 5 | amalgam story | 2 |
amalgam tattoo | 5 | amalgam claw dark | 2 |
mercury amalgam filling | 4 | amalgam filling removal | 2 |
amalgam dc marvel | 4 | amalgam dental removal | 2 |
amalgam bboard | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "amalgam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | amalgamë (cement, filling), lidhje zhive. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زئبق ممزوج, الملغم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смесица (alloy, farrago, gallimaufry, gumbo, intermixture, mash, melange, mess, miscellany, mixture, motley, olio, omnium gatherum, patchwork), смес (admixture, alloy, commixture, composite, compound, fusion, infusion, intermixture, medley, melange, miscellany, mix, mixture), амалгама (foil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 汞合金. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | amalgám, smìs (assortment, blend, brew, combination, commixture, compound, concoction, farrago, medley, miscellany, mix, mix up, mixture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | amalgam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | amalgame, amalgama, amalgaam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ملقمه , ترکیب مخلوط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | amalgaami. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amalgame. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Amalgam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμάλγαμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אמל'מ" (amalgamation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | amalgám. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kadar (alloy, character, command, degree, gauge, God's will, level, quality), campuran (admixture, alloy, assortment, blend, composite, concoction, interference, intervention, mash, meddling, medley, mixture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | amalgama. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 混合物 (mixture), アマチュア無線局 (amaryllis, amateur radio station, amoeba, friend, lover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | """うぶつ (mixture), アマルガ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 아말감. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | co-lheian. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amalgamay amálgama (foil, mix up). (various references) amalgam (blend, congeries), adunãturã (congeries, crowd, gathering, group, hash, heap, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, mishmash, mob, swarm, troop). (various references) смесь (blend, chow-chow, collectanea, commixture, composite, composition, compound, concoction, farrago, hotchpotch, interfusion, intermixture, jumble, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixture, olio, pasticcio, pastiche, potpourri, salmagundi), амальгама (amalgams). (various references) amalgam, mešavina (admixture, blend, composite, compost, congeries, farrago, hash, intermixture, jumble, medley, melange, mix, mixture, olio, pasticcio, pastiche). (various references) amalgama. (various references) amalgam. (various references) malgama, karışım (admixture, alloy, amalgamation, blend, combo, commixture, concoction, farrago, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, melange, mix, mixture, potpourri), cıvalı alaşım, birbirine karışma (intermixture). (various references) суміш (admixture, bastard, blend, chow-chow, commixture, composite, compound, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, melange, mingle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixture, olio, omnium gatherum, salmagundi, temperature), амальгама (foil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | malagma. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | amalgama,. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amalgam": amalgamate, amalgamated, amalgamates, amalgamating, amalgamation, amalgamations, amalgamator, amalgamators, amalgams. (additional references) | |
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"Amalgam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adalgar, ajalan, almagam, almalgam, Amagai, amagalm, amaglam, Amala, amalagam, amalgama, amalgamy, amalgan, amalgem, amalgin, amalgm, amalgom, amalgum, Amgala, Amulva, Amzallag, Armaghan, ataatga, Ayarga, ramalama, Samangan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amalgam" (pronounced uma"lgum) |
| 3 | -g u m | Brougham, sorghum. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-g-l-m-m" | |
-2 letters: agama, gamma, magma. | |
-3 letters: agma, alga, alma, gala, gama, lama, malm, mama. | |
-4 letters: aal, aga, ala, ama, gal, gam, lag, lam, mag. | |
-5 letters: aa, ag, al, am, la, ma, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-g-l-m-m" | |
+1 letter: amalgams, mamaliga. | |
+2 letters: mamaligas. | |
+3 letters: amalgamate. | |
+4 letters: amalgamated, amalgamates, amalgamator, grammatical, megalomania. | |
+5 letters: amalgamating, amalgamation, amalgamators, diagrammable, managemental, megalomaniac, megalomanias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 61 6C 67 61 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- .- .-.. --. .- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100001 01101100 01100111 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m a l g a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0061 006C 0067 0061 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35796778736779 |
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