mixtion

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/ˈmɪkst͡ʃən/

noun

The act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounmixtion (countable and uncountable, plural mixtions)

plural mixtions

  1. archaiccountableuncountableThe act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.

    Nor are there hardly any who either treat of mutation or mixtion of sexes, who have not left some mention of this point […]

    1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableA compound of drugs; a medicinal concoction.
  3. countableobsoleteuncountableA chemical compound.
  4. countableobsoleteuncountableIn gilding, a mixture of amber, mastic, and asphalt used as a size or mordant for affixing gold leaf to wood or to distemper pictures.
  5. countableobsoleteuncountableThe addition of something as an ingredient; admixture; the presence of a heterogeneous element in a mixture or compound.
  6. countableobsoleteuncountableA kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

Origin

  1. Latinmixtiō
  2. Middle Frenchmixtion
  3. Englishmixtion

From Middle French mixtion, mixion, and its source, Latin mixtiō, from mixtus (“mixed”).

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APA

mixtion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixtion

MLA

“mixtion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixtion. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mixtion,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixtion.

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