Amalgamate vs Merger - What's the difference?
amalgamate | merger |
To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
* Burke
To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
(mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
(economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
(legal) An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
(linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
As a verb amalgamate
is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join.As an adjective amalgamate
is coalesced; united; combined.As a noun merger is
the act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.amalgamate
English
Verb
(amalgamat)- to amalgamate''' two races; to '''amalgamate one race with another
- Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
Synonyms
* (to merge) mixAntonyms
* (to merge) separateExternal links
* ("amalgamate" on Wikipedia) ----merger
English
(wikipedia merger)Noun
(en noun)- ''Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
- the cot-caught merger