amalgamとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

名詞

amalgam (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 amalgams)

1. (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
2. A combination of different things.
   • 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.

3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.

同意語

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

関連する語

• amalgamate
• amalgamation

動詞

amalgam (三人称単数 現在形 amalgams, 現在分詞 amalgaming, 過去形および過去分詞形 amalgamed)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To amalgamate.
   • a. 1691, Robert Boyle, An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies

     I had once occasion to distill in a small retort some gold amalgamed with such a fine and subtile mercur

   • 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 1008120557; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, OCLC 52009618, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     gold t'amalgam with some six of mercury

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “amalgam”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2022), “Amalgam”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “amalgam”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2022.
• “amalgam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

アナグラム

• malagma