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In general, amalgamation is the process of combining or uniting multiple entities into one form. Amalgamate and its derivatives may refer to: *Metals and science * * In mining, amalgamation was historically used in the patio process and pan amalgamation to recover precious metals from ore by combining them with mercury. * * * Amalgamation combines mercury and another element to create amalgam (chemistry), used in dentistry, chemistry, and mining * * In geology, the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two continents, blocks or terranes * Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies * * Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom * Amalgamation (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 (military unit), the consolidation of military units, usually traditional regiments, into a new unit carrying the lineage, history, traditions, and identity of both * ''Amalgamation'', an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994 * Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction * 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amalgamation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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