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amalgam   (TTS Sound)

The noun amalgam has 2 senses

• amalgam, dental amalgam -- (an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams)


• amalgam -- (a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas")