Meaning & use
Amalgamating
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Combining or uniting different elements, groups, or substances into a single whole.
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The two departments are amalgamating to form one larger research unit.
Goldsmiths once used mercury for amalgamating gold particles from ore.
A note on using this word
From 'amalgamate', originally a term from metallurgy describing the alloying of metals with mercury.
Words with a similar meaning
mergingcombining
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Words with an opposite meaning
separatingdividing
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