- 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
--1 is a kind of alloy, metal
- amalgam - a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
--2 is a kind of combination
Derived form: verb amalgamate1