1. [noun] The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
2. [noun] The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
3. [noun] (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
4. [noun] (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. [in the US, supplanted after 1863 by miscegenation; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s]
5. [noun] The combination of two or more commercial companies.