amalgamation of railway companies - слияние железнодорожных компаний
industrial amalgamation - слияние промышленных предприятий
compulsory amalgamation - обязательное слияние
racial [ethnic] amalgamation - расовое [этническое] смешение
the country is an amalgamation of many peoples - эта страна - сплав многих народов
Новый большой англо-русский словарь. 2001.
Amalgamation — Amalgamation, meaning to combine or unite into one form, has several uses:* Amalgamation (mining), the process of separation of precious metals from ore. * Amalgamation (history), a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of… … Wikipedia
amalgamation — [ amalgamasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1620; de amalgamer ♦ Opération métallurgique consistant à combiner le mercure avec un autre métal, ou à extraire l or et l argent de certains minerais au moyen du mercure. ● amalgamation nom féminin Action d amalgamer… … Encyclopédie Universelle
amalgamation — a‧mal‧ga‧ma‧tion [əˌmælgəˈmeɪʆn] noun [countable, uncountable] when two or more organizations amalgamate, often in order to increase profits by cutting costs: • the amalgamation of the regional sales operations into one national salesforce •… … Financial and business terms
Amalgamation — A*mal ga*ma tion, n. [Cf. F. amalgamation.] 1. The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure. [1913 Webster] 2.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Amalgamation — ist der Vorgang der Bildung von Amalgamen (s.d.). Er dient, im großen Maßstabe ausgeführt, zur Gewinnung von Edelmetallen aus ihren Erzen, s. Gold und Silber … Lexikon der gesamten Technik
Amalgamation — Amalgamation, Amalgamieren, jede Vereinigung eines Metalls mit Quecksilber (s. Amalgam); dann der metallurgische Prozeß, durch welchen das Gold und Silber aus seinen Erzen mittels des Quecksilbers gewonnen wird … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
amalgamation — index association (alliance), building (business of assembling), cartel, centralization, coalescence, coalition, combination … Law dictionary
amalgamation — (n.) 1610s, noun of action from archaic amalgam (v.) to alloy with mercury (see AMALGAMATE (Cf. amalgamate)). Figurative, non chemical sense of a combining into one uniform whole is attested from 1775 … Etymology dictionary
amalgamation — *consolidation, merger … New Dictionary of Synonyms
amalgamation — [ə mal΄gə mā′shən] n. 1. an amalgamating or being amalgamated 2. the result of amalgamating; mixture, blend, merger, etc. 3. Metallurgy the extraction of a precious metal from its ore by alloying it with mercury … English World dictionary
amalgamation — UK [əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms amalgamation : singular amalgamation plural amalgamations 1) a process in which two organizations join and make one large one the amalgamation of Setco with Bertrand s 2) a… … English dictionary
