admixture

What it means

1. countableuncountableAn instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.

   The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.

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   [Penelope and Euryclea] express their feelings in copious direct discourse. Feelings though they are, with only a slight admixture of the most general considerations upon human destiny, the syntactical connection between part and part is perfectly clear, no contour is blurred.

   1946, Erich Auerbach, “Odysseus' Scar”, in Partisan Review, transl., Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, page 3

   Gas analysis of blood samples, obtained from different sites in the heart and great vessels, permits demonstration of admixture of oxygenated blood in the venous side or admixture of venous blood in the arterial side of the circulation.

   1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170

   1. countableuncountableA mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.

      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.

      1928, H. P. Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop, The Curse of Yig

2. countableuncountableA mixture, in some contexts

In a sentence

The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.

Where it comes from

1. Latinadmixtūra
2. Englishadmixture

From Latin admixtūra, from admixtus, past participle of admisceō (“to mix in”), from misceō (“to mix”). Analyzable as ad- + mixture.