Amalgamation

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
- Patio process, the use of mercury amalgamation to extract silver
- Pan amalgamation, another extraction method with additional compounds
Amalgamation (geology), the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two continents, blocks or terranes
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

Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies
Amalgamation (land), the formal combination of adjoining plots. In some jurisdictions distinct from Merger which refers in English land to the two classes of title in common ownership usually with a registered intention to merge them. In this way a lease can be terminated (see leasehold estate).
- Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom
Merger (politics), in geopolitics, the joining of two or more administrative units
Amalgamation (names), the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names
Amalgamation (fiction), the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things
Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of different ethnicities and races
Amalgamation, an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994
Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp.
Amalgamated (organization name)
Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s
Conflation, also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions