#amalgam
- Plot amalgamation — The act of attaching or the state of being attached; a close structural joining of two elements using an adhesive, welding, or mechanical fixation. In cadastre, urban planning, and property law, it represents the technical and legal operation of unifying two or more adjacent land plots to form a single property body.
- Amalgam — An alloy formed by combining mercury with another metal (such as gold, silver, zinc, or tin), historically used in extractive metallurgy and dentistry for fillings; (figuratively) a confused, heterogeneous, and mismatched mixture of different elements, ideas, or feelings.
- To amalgamate — To combine, dissolve, or alloy a metal with mercury; (figuratively) to mix, blend, fuse, or associate completely different elements, ideas, or feelings in a chaotic or heterogeneous manner.
- Amalgamation — The act of amalgamating and its result; the chemical or metallurgical operation of forming an amalgam; (in economics) the process of merging, unifying, or consolidating two or more corporate entities into a single new legal body.
- Amalgamated — Alloyed or combined with mercury; (in economics) merged, unified, or consolidated into a single corporate or financial body; (figuratively) composed of a confused, heterogeneous, mismatched, or incoherent mixture of diverse elements or ideas.
- Amalgamator — A mechanical device or apparatus used in dental clinics for the rapid mixing and dosing, through high-frequency vibrations, of components required to prepare dental amalgam; (as an adjective) having the property or role of blending or unifying heterogeneous elements.
- To amalgamate variant — A non-standardized, rare, or jargonistic verbal variant of 'amalgama', used accidentally in technical or colloquial language meaning to combine a metal with mercury or (figuratively) to blend disparate elements.
- Amalgamation variant — A non-standardized, rare, or jargonistic verbal noun variant of 'amalgamare', designating the hypothetical process of combining a metal with mercury or (figuratively) the blending or merging of heterogeneous elements.
- Amalgamated variant — Alloyed or combined with mercury through a non-standard method or described via peripheral technical language; (figuratively) fused, blended, or mixed chaotically into a heterogeneous whole.
- Mercury alloyist — An archaic or regional variant of amalgamator, designating in the past a worker specialized in combining ores with mercury to extract precious metals; figuratively, an individual who tends to mix diverse concepts in a confused manner.
- To amalgamate — An archaic and regional technical term meaning to amalgamate or treat a precious metal (especially gold or silver) with mercury (quicksilver) in order to separate it from impurities and waste ores during the traditional mining extraction process.