Amalgamation

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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 band Pop 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 in model 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 a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom
• Amalgamation combines mercury and another element to create amalgam, used in dentistry, chemistry, and mining.
• Amalgamation - 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 mod Science 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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