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AMALGAMATION


'Amalgamation', meaning to combine or unite into one form, has several uses:

Amalgam, in chemistry, mining and dentistry, the result of the blending of mercury with another metal or alloy

Amalgamation (mining), the process of separation of precious metals from ore.

Amalgamation (history), a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of different ethnicities and "races".

Amalgamation, in business, the result of mergers of companies

Amalgamation (music), the synthesis of sound events into an inter-parametric unit where parameters act together

Amalgamation (EP), an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994.

Amalgamation (politics), in politics, refers to the joining of two or more political units. See consolidated city-county or metropolitan municipality

Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction

Amalgamation (model theory), a construction in model theory, a subfield of mathematical logic
'Amalgamated' may refer to (as part of a formal name):
;In business

Anglo-Amalgamated, a British film production company from the 1930s to the 1970s, responsible for some of the early "Carry On" films

Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s

Amalgamated Motor Cycles Ltd

Amalgamated Press, a former name of Fleetway Publications

Amalgamated Studios

Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited

★ Amalgamated Fluorodynamics is a fictional company in the Half-Life mod Science and Industry

Amalgamated Machinery Corp , maker of the Amalgamated car
;In trade unionism

Amalgamated Society of Engineers (Australia)

Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union

★ In Botswana


Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union


National Amalgamated Central, Local & Parastatal Manual Workers' Union, a Botswana-based organisation

★ In New Zealand


Central Amalgamated Workers' Union


Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union


Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union

★ In the United Kingdom


Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, a historical British trade union (formerly known as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers), now part of Amicus


Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union


Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, a British organisation formed during the 1860s

★ In the United States and Canada


Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, a historical trade union


Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America



Amalgamated Housing Corporation, a housing cooperative in New York City, founded by members of the union



Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, a bank founded in 1923 by the ACWA and now owned by UNITE HERE


Amalgamated Meat Cutters, a North American trade union


Amalgamated Transit Union, a U.S. and Canada based union

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