Word Meanings - ADMIXTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of mixing; mixture. 2. The compound formed by mixing different substances together. 3. That which is mixed with anything.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADMIXTURE)

• Alloy
• Admixture
• deterioration
• adulteration
• drawback
• diminution
• decrement
• impairment
• debasement
• depreciation
• disparagement

Related words: (words related to ADMIXTURE)

• ALLOYAGE
  The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• ALLOY STEEL
  Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.
• DEPRECIATION
  1. The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation. 2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke. 3. the state of being depreciated.
• DRAWBACK
  Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M (more info)
• ALLOY
  1. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam. 2. The quality, or comparative purity,
• DECREMENT
  A name given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced. (more info) 1. The state of becoming gradually less; decrease;
• DEBASEMENT
  The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.
• DIMINUTION
  Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record. (more info) 1. The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase. 2. The act of lessening
• DETERIORATION
  The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
• ADMIXTURE
  1. The act of mixing; mixture. 2. The compound formed by mixing different substances together. 3. That which is mixed with anything.
• UNALLOYED
  Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.
• HALLOYSITE
  A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.