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)
See also Border towns in the United States with portmanteau names List of portmanteaus Portamento, in music, a continuous change in pitch (unrelated)
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