mixture

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French misture, from Latin mixtūra (“a mixing”), from mixtus, perfect passive participle of misceō (“mix”); compare mix.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪkstʃə/
• (General American) enPR: mĭksʹchər, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/

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• Hyphenation: mix‧ture

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.

• mix
• mixer

• “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.

From Old French misture, from Latin mixtūra.

• IPA^(key): /mik.styʁ/

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mixture f (plural mixtures)

1. mixture

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

mixtūre

1. vocative masculine singular of mixtūrus

mixture

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

mixture

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