Amalgamation
# Amalgamation

Amalgamation is the process of combining or uniting multiple entities into one form.

Amalgamation, amalgam, and other derivatives may refer to:

## Mathematics and science

* Amalgam (chemistry), the combination of mercury with another metal
   * Pan amalgamation, another extraction method with additional compound
   * Patio process, the use of mercury amalgamation to extract silver
* Amalgamation (geology), the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two terranes; see Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone belt
* Amalgamation paradox in probability and statistics, also known as Simpson's paradox
* Amalgamation property in model theory
* Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s
* Amalgamation (fiction), the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things
* Amalgamation, a 1994 EP by the band Pop Will Eat Itself
* Amalgamation, the debut studio album by the band Trapt

## Other uses

* Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp.
* Amalgamated (organization name)
* Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies
* Amalgamation (land), the formal combination of adjoining plots; in some jurisdictions distinct from a merger
* Amalgamation (names), the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names
* Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the merger of people of different ethnicities and "races"
* Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the UK
* Amalgamation, in C (programming language) (C) and C++ programming, merging all the source codes of a library into a single header file
* Conflation, also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions
* Merger (politics), consolidation or amalgamation, in geopolitics, joining two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipalities, cities, towns, counties, districts etc. into a single entity
