Portmanteau (disambiguation)

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A portmanteau is a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms, e.g., smog from smoke and fog, or brunch from breakfast and lunch.

Portmanteau may also refer to:

  • Portmanteau (luggage), a case or bag to carry clothes or mail in that opens into two equally sized compartments
  • Portmanteau film, an anthology film made up of several short films that interrelate
  • Portmanteau inhibitor, in pharmaceuticals, a drug which molecularly combines the active portions of two inhibitor-class drugs
  • Portmanteau sentence, in linguistics, a particular type of code-switching
  • Portmanteau test, in statistics, a test applied to autocorrelations of a time series
  • Portmanteau theorem on convergence of measures in probability theory
  • A coat rack, from the French porter (carry) and manteau (cloak)

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