mixture
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mixture/ˈmɪkstʃə(r)/
▶noun a substance made by mixing other substances together.
■ the process of mixing or being mixed.
■ (a mixture of) a combination of different things in which the components are individually distinct.
■ the charge of gas or vapour mixed with air admitted to the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine.
'mixture' also found in these Oxford entries:
air
- alphabet soup
- amalgam
- amatol
- angora wool
- aqua regia
- azeotrope
- baking powder
- balderdash
- ballast
- barium
- barley water
- batter
- behalf
- benzine
- bhelpuri
- bitumen
- black velvet
- blend
- Bordeaux mixture
- borosilicate glass
- buttercream
- cacophony
- cake
- calomel
- cannelloni
- capriccio
- celery salt
- chilli powder
- chimera
- choke
- chromatography
- clearcole
- coal gas
- cob
- cocktail
- collodion
- colour
- composition
- compost
- compression
- concentration
- concrete
- cooler
- cosmopolitan
- cough mixture
- crasis
- cross
- crossing over
- crumpet
