- 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 different ethnicities and "races".
* Amalgamation (business), the result of mergers of companies
* "Amalgamation", an EP released by the bandPop Will Eat Itself in 1994.
*Amalgamation (politics) , in geopolitics, refers to the joining of two or more administrative units.
*Free product with amalgamation , in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction.
* Amalgamation is a construction inmodel theory , a subfield of mathematical logic.
*Amalgamation (fiction) , the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things.
*Amalgamation (geology) , the union of two or more continents.
*Amalgamation (names) , the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names
*Conflation , also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions.
* Amalgamation, another name for atrade union , chiefly used in the United Kingdom
* Amalgamation combines mercury and another element to createamalgam , used in dentistry, chemistry, and mining.
* Amagamation - the combination of several components to produce a whole item.Amalgamated
Amalgamated usually means something that has undergone amalgamation. However, amalgamated may also refer to (as part of a formal name): ;In business
*Anglo-Amalgamated , a British film production company from the 1930s to the 1970s, responsible for some of the early "Carry On" films
*Amalgamated Broadcasting System , a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s
*Amalgamated Motor Cycles Ltd
*Fleetway Publications. formerly known as "Amalgamated Press".
*Amalgamated Studios
*Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited
* Amalgamated Fluorodynamics is a fictional company in the Half-Life modScience and Industry
*Amalgamated (1917 automobile) , car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp.
*Chesham Amalgamations , a British mergers and acquisitions broking company;In trade unionism
*Amalgamated Society of Engineers (Australia)
*Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union
* In Botswana
**Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union
**National Amalgamated Central, Local & Parastatal Manual Workers' Union , a Botswana-based organisation
* In New Zealand
**Central Amalgamated Workers' Union
**Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union
**Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union
* In the United Kingdom
**Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , a historical British trade union (formerly known as the "Amalgamated Society of Engineers"), now part of Amicus
**Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union
**Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners , a British organisation formed during the 1860s
* In the United States and Canada
**Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers , a historical trade union
**Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
***Amalgamated Bank of Chicago , a bank founded in 1923 by the ACWA and now owned by UNITE HERE
**Amalgamated Meat Cutters , a North American trade union
**Amalgamated Transit Union , a U.S. and Canada based union
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