ADMIXTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admixture mean? 

• ADMIXTURE (noun)
  The noun ADMIXTURE has 3 senses:

1. the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

2. an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base

3. the act of mixing together

  Familiarity information: ADMIXTURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMIXTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

admixture; alloy

Hypernyms ("admixture" is a kind of...):

impureness; impurity (the condition of being impure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

admixture; intermixture

Context example:

a large intermixture of sand

Hypernyms ("admixture" is a kind of...):

ingredient (a component of a mixture or compound)

Derivation:

admix (mix or blend)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of mixing together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

admixture; commixture; intermixture; mix; mixing; mixture

Context example:

the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio

Hypernyms ("admixture" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Derivation:

admix (mix or blend)

 Context examples 

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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is composed of an admixture of two or more of the following cell types, mucinous, serous, clear, transitional, or endometrioid cell.

(Ovarian Mixed Epithelial Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by an admixture of two or more of the five major cell types: serous, mucinous, endometrioid, clear, and Brenner/transitional.

(Malignant Ovarian Mixed Epithelial Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Invasive malignant neoplasm that shows an admixture of foci of squamous differentiation with foci of glandular differentiation.

(Adenosquamous Cell Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A low grade ovarian epithelial tumor composed of an admixture of two or more of the five major cell types: serous, mucinous, endometrioid, clear cell, and Brenner/transitional.

(Borderline Ovarian Mixed Epithelial Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A distinctive variant of fibrosarcoma, characterized by an admixture of heavily collagenized and myxoid zones, deceptively bland spindled cells with a whorling growth pattern and arcades of curvilinear blood vessels.

(Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An infrequent pituitary gland adenoma composed of an admixture of acidophilic and chromophobic cells that produce growth hormone and prolactin respectively.

(Mixed Somatotroph-Lactotroph Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A container of a sterile preparation whose contents are intended for use in a pharmacy admixture program and are restricted to the preparation of admixtures for infusion or, through a sterile transfer device, for the filling of empty sterile syringes.

(Pharmacy Bulk Vial, NCI Thesaurus)

Although I was glad to hear the sound, yet my gladness was not without admixture.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)