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Amalgam vs Assortment - What's the difference?

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Amalgam is a related term of assortment.


As nouns the difference between amalgam and assortment

is that amalgam is amalgam (alloy containing mercury) while assortment is a collection of varying but related items.

amalgam

English

(wikipedia amalgam)

Noun

(amalgams)
  • (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury
  • A combination of different things

    • Synonyms

    * alloy, blend, combo, compound, mixture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, ambitransitive) To amalgamate.
    • (Boyle)
    (Ben Jonson)

    References

    ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • (l)

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun, amàlg?m, amalgami , amalgáma, amalgama , amalgamu, amalgamima , amalgam, amalgame , amalgame, amalgami , amalgamu, amalgamima , amalgamom, amalgamima }} ----

    assortment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of varying but related items.
    • This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

    Synonyms

    * diversity, Whitman's sampler * See also