amalgamation

/əˈmælgəˌmeɪʃən/

Other forms: amalgamations

You create an amalgamation by taking separate things and combining them into one. If your school is closing and joining with another school to create a new school, that is an amalgamation.

Commonly, amalgamation is a term used to describe the merger of two or more companies into one. Before J.P Morgan Chase was a single bank (or an amalgamation), it was two separate entities: J.P. Morgan and the Chase Manhattan Corporation. When you want to describe something as being made up of many previously separate parts, you can say it's an amalgamation.

Definitions of amalgamation

1. noun

   the combination of two or more commercial companies
   synonyms: merger, uniting

   type of:

   consolidation, integration

   the act of combining into an integral whole