- [countable, usually singular] amalgam (of something) (formal)
a mixture or combination of things 混合物；综合体 - [uncountable] (specialist)
a mixture of mercury and another metal, used especially to fill holes in teeth 汞齐（尤用于补牙）
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French amalgame or medieval Latin amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.