mixture
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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) (file) - Hyphenation: mix‧ture
Noun
mixture (countable and uncountable, plural mixtures)
- The act of mixing.
- Something produced by mixing.
- Something that consists of diverse elements.
- 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
- (music) A compound organ stop.
- A cloth of variegated colouring.
- (India) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.
Derived terms
- bark mixture
- Bekhterev's mixture
- Bordeau mixture
- Bordeaux mixture
- Brompton mixture
- Burgundy mixture
- chalk mixture
- Cheshunt mixture
- cough mixture
- diastereomixture
- dolly mixture
- eutectic mixture
- freezing mixture
- Gregory's mixture
- heather-mixture
- heterogeneous mixture
- homogeneous mixture
- ideal mixture
- lawn mixture
- mission mixture
- reaction mixture
Related terms
Translations
act of mixing
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something produced by mixing
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something that consists of diverse elements
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medicinal compound
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Further reading
- “mixture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “mixture”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
From Old French misture, from Latin mixtūra.
Pronunciation
Noun
mixture f (plural mixtures)
Further reading
- “mixture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Latin
Participle
mixtūre
Portuguese
Verb
mixture
- inflection of mixturar:
Spanish
Verb
mixture
- inflection of mixturar: