mixture

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French misture, from Latin mixtūra (“a mixing”), from mixtus, perfect passive participle of misceō (“mix”); compare mix.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪkstʃə/
• (General American) enPR: mĭksʹchər, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: mix‧ture

Noun

mixture (countable and uncountable, plural mixtures)

1. The act of mixing.

   The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat.

2. Something produced by mixing.

   An alloy is a mixture of two metals.

3. Something that consists of diverse elements.

   The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.

4. A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution

   A teaspoonful of the mixture to be taken three times daily after meals

5. (music) A compound organ stop.
6. A cloth of variegated colouring.
7. (India) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.

Derived terms

• bark mixture
• Bordeau mixture
• Brompton mixture
• chalk mixture
• Cheshunt mixture
• cough mixture
• diastereomixture
• dolly mixture
• eutectic mixture
• freezing mixture
• Gregory's mixture
• heather-mixture
• heterogeneous mixture
• homogeneous mixture
• mission mixture
• reaction mixture

 

Related terms

• mix
• mixer

Translations

act of mixing

• Bulgarian: смесване (bg) n (smesvane)
• Catalan: barreja (ca) f, mescla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 混合 (zh) (hùnhé)

• Esperanto: miksado
• Finnish: sekoittaminen (fi)
• French: mélange (fr) m
• Galician: mestura f
• German: Mischung (de) f
• Hungarian: keverés (hu)
• Irish: meascadh m

• Italian: mistura (it) f, amalgama (it) f, combinazione (it) f
• Maori: whakaranunga
• Polish: mieszanie (pl), zmieszanie (pl)
• Portuguese: mistura (pt) f, misturação f, misturamento m
• Romanian: amestecare (ro)
• Russian: сме́шивание (ru) n (sméšivanije)
• Scottish Gaelic: measgachadh m
• Spanish: mezcla (es) f
• Turkish: karıştırmak (tr)
• Welsh: cymysgu (cy) m

something produced by mixing

• Arabic: خَلِيط‎ m (ḵalīṭ)
• Aromanian: amisticãturã f
• Azerbaijani: qatışıq
• Bulgarian: смес (bg) f (smes)
• Catalan: barreja (ca) f, mescla (ca) f, mixtura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 混合物 (zh) (hùnhéwù)

• Czech: směs (cs) f
• Esperanto: miksaĵo
• Finnish: sekoitus (fi)
• French: mélange (fr) m, mixture (fr) f
• Galician: mestura f
• German: Mischung (de) f
• Greek: κράμα (el) n (kráma), μείγμα (el) n (meígma)

  Ancient: μίγμα n (mígma)

• Hungarian: keverék (hu), elegy (hu)

• Irish: meascán m
• Italian: lega (it) f, combinazione (it) f, composto (it) m
• Kazakh: қоспа (kk) (qospa)
• Latin: mixtūra f
• Maori: ranunga
• Plautdietsch: Mischmausch f
• Polish: mieszanina (pl) f, mieszanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mistura (pt) f
• Romanian: amestec (ro), mixtură (ro), amestecătură (ro) f
• Russian: смесь (ru) f (smesʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: measgachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: smesa f, mešavina f
• Spanish: mezcla (es) f
• Swahili: mchanganyiko (sw), mkorogo (sw)
• Tagalog: halungkap
• Tocharian B: traiwo, triwālñe
• Turkish: karışım (tr)
• Welsh: cymysgwch m, cymysgedd (cy) m

something that consists of diverse elements

• Bulgarian: смесица (bg) f (smesica)
• Finnish: yhdistelmä (fi), sekoitus (fi)
• Galician: mestura f
• Italian: insieme (it) m, composto (it) m, mescolanza (it) f, miscela (it) f, commistione (it) m, mistura (it) f, misto (it) m

• Plautdietsch: Mischmausch f
• Polish: zlepek (pl) m
• Portuguese: mistura (pt) f
• Romanian: compus (ro) m
• Turkish: karışım (tr)

medicinal compound

• Bulgarian: микстура f (mikstura)
• Finnish: mikstuura (fi)
• Irish: cumasc m
• Italian: composto (it) m
• Persian: معجون‎ (fa) (ma'jun)

• Polish: specyfik (pl) m, mikstura (pl) f
• Romanian: compoziție (ro) f
• Russian: миксту́ра (ru) f (mikstúra)
• Welsh: cymysgedd (cy) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} mengsel (nl)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mezcla (es)

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} blandning (sv)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} మిశ్రమం (te) (miśramaṁ) (miSramam) (2, 3)

Further reading

• mixture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mixture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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French

Etymology

From Old French misture, from Latin mixtūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik.styʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

mixture f (plural mixtures)

1. mixture

Further reading

• “mixture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Participle

mixtūre

1. vocative masculine singular of mixtūrus

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Portuguese

Verb

mixture

1. inflection of mixturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Spanish

Verb

mixture

1. inflection of mixturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative