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Amalgamation vs Association - What's the difference?

amalgamation | association | Related terms |

Amalgamation is a related term of association.


As nouns the difference between amalgamation and association

is that amalgamation is the process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation while association is the act of associating.

amalgamation

English

Noun

(wikipedia amalgamation) (en noun)
  • The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
  • The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
  • # (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
  • (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.
  • association

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of associating.
  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations —culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
  • (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
  • Derived terms

    * guilt by association