admixture

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Noun

admixture (countable and uncountable, 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.

Related terms

• admix

Translations

instance of mixing in

• Danish: tilsætning c, tilføring c
• Finnish: lisäys (fi), lisääminen (fi)
• Interlingue:
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilsetning m or f, tilføring m or f (present participle of tilføre)

• Spanish: adición (es) f

mixture

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

  Mandarin: 混合 (zh) (hùnhé), 混合物 (zh) (hùnhéwù)

• Finnish: sekoitus (fi)
• Greek: πρόσμιξη f (prósmixi), σύμμιξη f (sýmmixi)
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• Interlingue:
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blanding (no) m or f

• Spanish: mezcla (es) f
• Swedish: blandning (sv) c

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• French: ^{(please verify)} mélange (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Beimischung
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• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} admixtion
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} mescolanza (it) f

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) admixtūre

1. vocative masculine singular of admixtūrus