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Interfuse vs Amalgamate - What's the difference?

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Interfuse is a related term of amalgamate.


As verbs the difference between interfuse and amalgamate

is that interfuse is to fuse or blend together while amalgamate is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

As an adjective amalgamate is

coalesced; united; combined.

interfuse

English

Verb

(interfus)
  • To fuse or blend together
  • *{{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=William James, title=A Pluralistic Universe, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused , the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=May Sinclair, title=The Three Sisters, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings. }}

    amalgamate

    English

    Verb

    (amalgamat)
  • To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
  • to amalgamate''' two races; to '''amalgamate one race with another
  • * Burke
  • Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
  • To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
  • (mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
  • Synonyms

    * (to merge) mix

    Antonyms

    * (to merge) separate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • coalesced; united; combined