admixture

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Noun

admixture (plural admixtures)

1. An instance of admixing, a mixing-in of something.

   The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.

   1. A mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.
      • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

        […] the wood still flourished high and dense, all of fir on the land side, but towards the sea with a large admixture of live oaks.

      • 1928, H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, The Curse of Yig:

        Both were lean, raw-boned specimens; the man tall, sandy, and grey-eyed, and the woman short and rather dark, with a black straightness of hair suggesting a slight Indian admixture.

2. A mixture, in some contexts
   1. (epilepsy) a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.

      Background EEG demonstrates an admixture of theta and delta waves.

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• admix

Translations

mixture

• Bulgarian: смес (bg) (smes), примес (bg) (primes)
• Chinese:

• Mandarin: simpl. 混合, simpl. 混合物

• Finnish: sekoitus (fi)

• Greek: πρόσμιξη (el) (prósmixi) f, σύμμιξη (el) (sýmmixi) f

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• French: mélange
• German: Beimischung
• Interlingua: admixtion

• Italian: mescolanza f
• Spanish: adición f, mezcla f