Amalgamation
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Amalgamation, meaning to combine or unite into one form, has several uses:
- Amalgam, in chemistry, mining and dentistry, the result of the blending of mercury with another metal or alloy
- Almagamation (mining), the process of separation of precious metals from ore.
- Amalgamation, in business, the result of mergers of companies
- Amalgamation (music), the synthesis of sound events into an inter-parametric unit where parameters act together
- Amalgamation (album), an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994.
- Amalgamation (politics), in politics, refers to the joining of two or more political units. See consolidated city-county or metropolitan municipality
- Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction
Amalgamated may 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
- Amalgamated Press, a former name of Fleetway Publications
- Amalgamated Studios
- Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited
- 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
- 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 Housing Corporation, a housing cooperative in New York City, founded by members of the union
- Amalgamated Bank, 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
