title: Amalgamation
text: # 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
  