Amalgamation Explained

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
- Pan amalgamation, another extraction method with additional compound
- Patio process, the use of mercury amalgamation to extract silver
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

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
Amalgamation, the debut studio album by the band Trapt

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 UK
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), consolidation or amalgamation, in geopolitics, joining two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipalities, cities, towns, counties, districts etc. into a single entity