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Amalgam
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amalgam
n.
alloy, mixture of metals (commonly used in dentistry for fillings)
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Amalgam
Amalgam may refer to:
- Amalgam (chemistry), mercury alloy
- Amalgam (dentistry), material of "silver" tooth fillings
- Bonded amalgam, used in dentistry
- Amalgam Comics, publisher
- Amalgam, Gauteng, South Africa
- Amalgam (Marvel Comics), 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
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amalgam
Noun
1. 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) dental amalgam
(hypernym) alloy, metal
2. a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
(hypernym) combination
(derivation) mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
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Amalgam (das)
n.
amalgam, alloy, mixture of metals
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amalgam
n.
směsice; amalgám
