Admixture

Among the 30 percent who do, the black admixture is around 2.3 percent, which would be like having about three black ancestors out of those 128. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They are called by the Greek historians Eastern Turks; like the Madjars and other Hunnish or Finnish tribes, they had probably received some admixture from the genuine Turkish races. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Among self-identified whites in Shriver’s sample, the average black admixture is only 0.7 percent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

For me, the most shocking and astonishing thing that's been revealed was my admixture - your admixture is your percentage of African ancestry, Native American ancestry and European ancestry. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The 2007 report by the OECD and International Transport Forum, points out that government biofuels subsidies aimed at boosting output (like those in place in the U.S.) or, by extension, those mandating a minimum mixture requirements - known as admixture - (like those in the E.U.) could encourage cheaper shortcuts, thus promoting relatively dirty biofuels. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"admixture" - a mixture (like menthol and vaseline) "vapor rub" - menthol-scented Vaseline. ❋ Truckeratlas (2004)

Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept a high rank in either of the two societies into which, speaking broadly, civilized life divides itself, -- the romantic and the cynical. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The somewhat apparent homogenity among sud-saharan Africans is more a product of "admixture" than of simple homogeneity. ❋ Kosmo (2009)

And if this admixture (an "admixture" is the scientific equivalent of a "colorway") of vehicles weren't volatile enough, the element of religion should be sufficient to cause it to explode with the force of a thousand R-Syses (or R-Si). ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Previous tests carried out on the DNA of Neandertal mitochondria, which represents just a tiny part of the whole genome, had not found any evidence of such interbreeding or "admixture". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bray and his colleagues did find evidence of elevated linkage disequilibrium in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, but were able to show that this matches signs of interbreeding or "admixture" between Middle Eastern and European populations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Within the white race all the sub-races have long since been mixed, and we Jews are part of the general admixture. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

To a large extent, we are all some admixture of wounded and healed, with an unstated pact to work out our unfinished business with each other. ❋ Tara Fass (2011)