admixture
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admixture (countable and uncountable, plural admixtures)
- An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.
- The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.
- 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.
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- A mixture, in some contexts
- (epilepsy) a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
- Background EEG demonstrates an admixture of theta and delta waves.
- (epilepsy) a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
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