Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun amalgam

2 senses of amalgam

Sense 1
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)
       => alloy, metal -- (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper")

Sense 2
amalgam -- (a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas")
       => combination -- (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)