AMALGAMとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈmæl.ɡəm/
• ハイフネーション: a‧mal‧gam

名詞

amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)

1. (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
2. A combination of different things.
   • 1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, page 698:

     […] nor must we overlook, in quite recent times, the ingenious "Dukedog", a little 4-4-0 (officially 90XX class) whose Victorian lineaments arise from an economical amalgam of obsolete "Duke" and "Bulldog" components.

   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:

     This was the Ambergate, Nottingham & Boston & Eastern Junction Railway, an amalgam of a number of separate schemes put forward in 1845, which secured its Act on July 16, 1846.

   • 1987 December 20, Barbara Smith, “We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 23, page 10:

     A church where spirit, pain, and joy formed a holy amalgam and were righteously acknowledged out loud.

3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.
4. (dentistry) An alloy of mercury used to fill tooth cavities.

同意語

• alloy, blend, combo, compound, conglomerate, mixture

派生語

関連する語

• amalgamate
• amalgamation

動詞

amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)

1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To amalgamate (something) with a thing.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     gold t’amalgam with some six of mercury

   • 1684, Robert Boyle, “An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies. Chapter VIII.”, in Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith […], →OCLC, page 143:

     […] I had once occaſion to diſtil in a ſmall Retort ſome Gold amalgamed vvith ſuch a fine and ſubtile Mercury, that being (vvithout the addition of any Salt) put to the Gold in the cold, they preſently grevv hot together.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “amalgam”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Amalgam”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “amalgam”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.
• “amalgam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Amalgam (dentistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Amalgam (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• malagma