Portmanteau

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Portmanteau (plural 'portmanteaux') may refer to:

• Portmanteau word, a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words
• Portmanteau (suitcase), a large travelling case
• portmanteau film, an anthology film made up of several short films that interrelate
• Portmanteau test, in statistics, a test applied to autocorrelations of a time series
• Portmanteau theorem on convergence of measures in probability theory
• Portmanteau inhibitor, in pharmaceuticals, a drug which molecularly combines the active portions of two inhibitor-class drugs

See also

• Portamento, in music, a continuous change in pitch (unrelated)

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