ad·mix·ture

(ăd-mĭks′chər)

a. The act of mixing or mingling: the researcher's admixture of different chemicals.

b. The state of being mingled or mixed: the narrative's admixture of fact and imagination.

2. Something that is produced by mixing; a mixture: an admixture of vitamins and minerals.

3. Something added in making a mixture: using fly ash as an admixture in making concrete.

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admixture

(ədˈmɪkstʃə)

1. a less common word for mixture

2. anything added in mixing; ingredient

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ad•mix•ture

(dˈmɪks tʃər)

n.

1. the act of mixing or the state of being mixed.

2. anything added; an alien element or ingredient.

3. a compound containing such an element or ingredient; mixture.

[1595–1605; < Latin admixt(us) + -ure, on the model of mixture]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	admixture - the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something alloy impureness, impurity - the condition of being impure
	2.	admixture - an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand" intermixture ingredient - a component of a mixture or compound
	3.	admixture - the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" commixture, mixing, intermixture, mix, mixture compounding, combining, combination - the act of combining things to form a new whole

admixture

noun

Something produced by mixing:

amalgam, amalgamation, blend, commixture, fusion, merger, mix, mixture.

Translations

mélange

miscela

admixture

[ədˈmɪkstʃəʳ] N → mezcla f, adición f (fig) → dosis f inv

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admixture

[ədˈmɪkstʃə^r] (formal) n (= mixture) → mélange m

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admixture

n (= thing added) → Zusatz m, → Beigabe f

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They should observe what elements mingle in their off spring; for if the son of a golden or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks, and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful towards the child because he has to descend in the scale and become a husbandman or artisan, just as there may be sons of artisans who having an admixture of gold or silver in them are raised to honour, and become guardians or auxiliaries.

Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within them, and they have therefore no need of the dross which is current among men, and ought not to pollute the divine by any such earthly admixture; for that commoner metal has been the source of many unholy deeds, but their own is undefiled.

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Very close around the stockade--too close for defence, they said--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.

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"The pure strain of the blood of this first black man has remained untainted by admixture with other creatures in the race of which I am a member; but from the sixteen-legged worm, the first ape and renegade black man has sprung every other form of animal life upon Barsoom.

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"-- yet are they clearly wholesome, the more espe- cially when one doth assuage the asperities of their nature by admixture of the tranquilizing juice of the wayward cabbage --"

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As the water in the lower part of the great sponge- like coral mass rises and falls with the tides, so will the water near the surface; and this will keep fresh, if the mass be sufficiently compact to prevent much mechanical admixture; but where the land consists of great loose blocks of coral with open interstices, if a well be dug, the water, as I have seen, is brackish.

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In stanza structure the number of forms is unusually great, but in most cases stanzas are internally varied and have a large admixture of short, ringing or musing, lines.

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This law would need to be supplemented by some account of the influence of frequency, and so on; but it seems to contain the essential characteristic of mnemic phenomena, without admixture of anything hypothetical.

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"I am indisposed to matrimony in general, and more especially to all admixture of the varieties of species, which only tend to tarnish the beauty and to interrupt the harmony of nature.

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'I am about to establish myself in one of the provincial towns of our favoured island (where the society may be described as a happy admixture of the agricultural and the clerical), in immediate connexion with one of the learned professions.

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Aramis thereupon turned towards him, and said, in a quiet tone, "You will not forget, my friend, the king's order respecting those whom he intends to receive this morning on rising." These words were clear enough, and the musketeer understood them; he therefore bowed to Fouquet, and then to Aramis, - to the latter with a slight admixture of ironical respect, - and disappeared.

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The original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature, the moderate proportion of intellect, and the very trifling admixture of moral and spiritual ingredients; these latter qualities, indeed, being in barely enough measure to keep the old gentleman from walking on all-fours.

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