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 amalgam [ə'mælgəm]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 汞合金, 汞齐

[化] 汞齐; 汞合金

[医] 汞合金, 汞齐


  1. The dentist used amalgam to fill my teeth.
    牙医用汞合金给我补牙.
  2. Her character is an amalgam of many different traits.
    她的个性是许多不同特性的融合。
  3. His work is a strange amalgam of several musical styles.
    他的作品是数种音乐风格的奇特融合。


amalgam
[ noun ]
  1. 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

  2. <noun.substance>
  3. a combination or blend of diverse things

  4. <noun.group>
    his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas


amalgam \a*mal"gam\ ([.a]*m[a^]l"gam), n. [F. amalgame, prob.
fr. L. malagma, Gr. ma`lagma, emollient, plaster, poultice,
fr. mala`ssein to make soft, fr. malako`s soft.]
1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an
amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.

Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally.

2. A mixture or compound of different things.

3. (Min.) A native compound of mercury and silver.


amalgam \a*mal"gam\, v. t. & i. [Cf. F. amalgamer]
To amalgamate. --Boyle. --B. Jonson.
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  1. But a fact of life is that the index is an amalgam of mostly already-reported statistics, and an imperfect one at that.
  2. Second only to the annual Pentagon bill in total discretionary spending, the $83.6 billion measure reported from the Appropriations Committee represents an amalgam of interests running from old cities to the newest initiatives of science.
  3. Instead, the organizers have substituted a lightweight contemporary amalgam of polystyrene, chipboard and cementlike material, which has been bonded together and scored so that it resembles blocks.
  4. Deregulation, he says, has left behind 'an amalgam of sophisticated financial processes and badly understood and frequently immeasurable risks'.
  5. The OECD's leading indicator index, an amalgam of interest rates, share prices, business surveys and other forward-looking statistics, is designed to predict movements in industrial output by about six months.
  6. An amalgam of 11 components (most previously reported), the index functions as an early alert on the economy's ups and downs six to nine months into the future.
  7. In Ott's case, the EPA alleged that he and others sold amalgam to metal processor Eugene Bourdeaudhui between 1969 and 1984.
  8. He also predicts that "we are entering the age of the supernatural," a colliding amalgam of all sorts of cults, esoteric "lords and masters," "New Age counterfeits," followers of the occult and even Satanism.
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