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Amalgamation

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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
  • Amalgamation (geology), the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two terranes; see Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone belt
  • 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s
  • Amalgamation (fiction), the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things
  • Amalgamation, a 1994 EP by the band Pop Will Eat Itself

Other uses

  • Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp.
  • Amalgamated (organization name)
  • Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies
  • Amalgamation (land), the formal combination of adjoining plots; in some jurisdictions distinct from a merger
  • Amalgamation (names), the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names
  • Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the merger of people of different ethnicities and "races"
  • Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom
  • Amalgamation, in C (programming language) (C) and C++ programming, merging all the source codes of a library into a single header file
  • Conflation, also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions
  • Merger (politics), or amalgamation, in geopolitics, the joining of two or more administrative units

See also

  • Amalgam (disambiguation)
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