AMALGAM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a combination or blend of diverse things
   Usage Example(s)
   • his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas
   Hypernyms(s) amalgam is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • combination (what does combination mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • mix (what does mix mean?)
   • mingle (what does mingle mean?)
   • commix (what does commix mean?)
   • unify (what does unify mean?)
   • amalgamate (what does amalgamate mean?)
2. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • dental amalgam (what does dental amalgam mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) amalgam is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • alloy (what does alloy mean?)
   • metal (what does metal mean?)