Portmanteau (disambiguation)

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A portmanteau is a word made up of two combined words.

Portmanteau may also refer to:

  • Portmanteau (luggage), a case or bag to carry clothes in that usually opens into two equally sized compartments
  • Portmanteau (mail), a specialized mail bag
  • Portmanteau film, a 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 test, in statistics, a test applied to autocorrelations of a time series
  • Portmanteau theorem on convergence of measures in probability theory

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