amalgamateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgama.

発音

• IPA: /əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/

動詞

amalgamate (third-person singular simple present amalgamates, present participle amalgamating, simple past and past participle amalgamated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

   Synonym: mix

   Antonym: separate

   to amalgamate two races

   to amalgamate one race with another

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.

   • 1957 September, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:

     At length, the two schemes were amalgamated to form the Manchester & Birmingham, which was to pass through the Potteries and join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, a few miles north of Stafford.

2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.

派生語

関連する語

• amalgam
• amalgamation

形容詞

amalgamate (comparative more amalgamate, superlative most amalgamate)

1. Coalesced; united; combined.

名詞

amalgamate (plural amalgamates)

1. The substance resulting from a process of amalgamation.

Further reading

• amalgamate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia