mixture

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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):

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• Hyphenation: mix‧ture

Noun

mixture (countable and uncountable, plural mixtures)

1. The act of mixing.

   The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat.

2. Something produced by mixing.

   An alloy is a mixture of two metals.

3. Something that consists of diverse elements.

   The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.

4. 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

5. (music) A compound organ stop.
6. A cloth of variegated colouring.
7. (India) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.

Derived terms

• admixture
• bark mixture
• Bekhterev's mixture
• biomixture
• Bordeau mixture
• Bordeaux mixture
• Brompton mixture
• Burgundy mixture
• chalk mixture
• Cheshunt mixture
• commixture
• cough mixture
• diastereomixture
• dolly mixture
• eutectic mixture
• freezing mixture
• Gregory's mixture
• heather-mixture
• heterogeneous mixture
• homogeneous mixture
• ideal mixture
• intermixture
• lawn mixture
• mission mixture
• mixtural
• multimixture
• premixture
• reaction mixture
• remixture
• submixture
• the mixture as before, the same mixture as before
• Yorkshire mixture

Related terms

• mix
• mixer

Translations

act of mixing

Bulgarian: смесване (bg) n (smesvane) Catalan: barreja (ca) f, mescla (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 混合 (zh) (hùnhé) Dutch: mengen (nl) n Esperanto: miksado Finnish: sekoittaminen (fi) French: mélange (fr) m Galician: mestura f German: Mischung (de) f Hindi: मिलाना (hi) (milānā) Hungarian: keverés (hu) Irish: meascadh m Italian: mistura (it) f, amalgama (it) f, combinazione (it) f Maori: whakaranunga Polish: mieszanie (pl), zmieszanie (pl) Portuguese: mistura (pt) f, misturação f, misturamento m Romanian: amestecare (ro) Russian: сме́шивание (ru) n (sméšivanije) Scottish Gaelic: measgachadh m Spanish: mezcla (es) f, mezcladura f, mezclamiento (es) m, mesclamiento (es) m (disused) Turkish: karıştırmak (tr) Welsh: cymysgu (cy) m

something produced by mixing

Arabic: خَلِيط m (ḵalīṭ) Aromanian: amisticãturã f Azerbaijani: qatışıq Bulgarian: смес (bg) f (smes) Catalan: barreja (ca) f, mescla (ca) f, mixtura (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 混合物 (zh) (hùnhéwù) Czech: směs (cs) f Dutch: mengsel (nl) n Esperanto: miksaĵo Finnish: sekoitus (fi) French: mélange (fr) m, mixture (fr) f Galician: mestura f German: Mischung (de) f, Gemisch (de) n Greek: κράμα (el) n (kráma), μείγμα (el) n (meígma) Ancient: μίγμα n (mígma) Hindi: मिश्रण (hi) m (miśraṇ) Hungarian: keverék (hu), elegy (hu) Irish: meascán m Italian: lega (it) f, combinazione (it) f, composto (it) m Kazakh: қоспа (kk) (qospa) Latin: mixtūra f Maori: ranunga Plautdietsch: Mischmausch f Polish: mieszanina (pl) f, mieszanka (pl) f Portuguese: mistura (pt) f Romanian: amestec (ro), mixtură (ro), amestecătură (ro) f Russian: смесь (ru) f (smesʹ) Scottish Gaelic: measgachadh m Serbo-Croatian: smesa f, mešavina f Spanish: mezcla (es) f, mixtura (es) f Swahili: mchanganyiko (sw), mkorogo (sw) Tagalog: halungkap Tocharian B: traiwo, triwālñe Turkish: karışım (tr) Welsh: cymysgwch m, cymysgedd (cy) m

something that consists of diverse elements

Bulgarian: смесица (bg) f (smesica) Finnish: yhdistelmä (fi), sekoitus (fi) Galician: mestura f Hindi: मिश्रण (hi) m (miśraṇ) Italian: insieme (it) m, composto (it) m, mescolanza (it) f, miscela (it) f, commistione (it) m, mistura (it) f, misto (it) m Plautdietsch: Mischmausch f Polish: zlepek (pl) m Portuguese: mistura (pt) f Romanian: compus (ro) m Turkish: karışım (tr) Vietnamese: hỗn hợp (vi)

medicinal compound

Bulgarian: микстура f (mikstura) Finnish: mikstuura (fi) Irish: cumasc m Italian: composto (it) m Persian: معجون (fa) (ma'jun) Polish: specyfik (pl) m, mikstura (pl) f Romanian: compoziție (ro) f Russian: миксту́ра (ru) f (mikstúra) Welsh: cymysgedd (cy) m

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Dutch: (please verify) mengsel (nl) Swedish: (please verify) blandning (sv) Telugu: (please verify) మిశ్రమం (te) (miśramaṁ) (2, 3)

Further reading

• “mixture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mixture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From Old French misture, from Latin mixtūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik.styʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

mixture f (plural mixtures)

1. mixture

Further reading

• “mixture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Participle

mixtūre

1. vocative masculine singular of mixtūrus

Portuguese

Verb

mixture

1. inflection of mixturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

mixture

1. inflection of mixturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative