Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of intermixing or intermingling.
  • noun A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
  • noun Admixture; something additional mingled in a mass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
  • noun Admixture; an additional ingredient.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
  • noun Admixture; an additional ingredient.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base
  • noun any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients
  • noun the act of mixing together

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Examples

  • The intermixture is the more complicated because one cannot attempt to distinguish a race by physical characteristics, by their personal appearance or features as marking descent from one stock.

    Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

  • So strangely were good and evil intermixed in the character of these celebrated brethren; and the intermixture was the secret of their gigantic power.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • In Beaumont and Fletcher's tragedies the comic scenes are rarely so interfused amidst the tragic as to produce a unity of the tragic on the whole, without which the intermixture is a fault.

    Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • If, when the eye is impressed with visionary images that last for a while, we look on colored surfaces, an intermixture also takes place; the spectrum is determined to a new colour...

    Brett Baker: February NYC Exhibitions: New York Overflows With Painting Brett Baker 2011

  • If, when the eye is impressed with visionary images that last for a while, we look on colored surfaces, an intermixture also takes place; the spectrum is determined to a new colour...

    Brett Baker: February NYC Exhibitions: New York Overflows With Painting Brett Baker 2011

  • But the intermixture soon absorbed a substantial part of the population, approaching 40 percent by 1803 and likely constituting a national majority by the time of Mexican independence in 1821.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • But the intermixture soon absorbed a substantial part of the population, approaching 40 percent by 1803 and likely constituting a national majority by the time of Mexican independence in 1821.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • Building on the practices and stories that survived - or emerged from -- hundreds of years of cultural intermixture, oppression, and natural evolution, social movement leaders constructed a powerful narrative of origin from which to build cultural pride and political power.

    Nathaniel Loewentheil: Bolivia: One Llama's Great Incan Adventure 2009

  • Brahmins and Jains go even further in this intermixture of faith and cookery, and shun everything that even looks like red meat: watermelon, tomatoes.

    Cardiac 2009

  • The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite.

    Les Miserables 2008

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