Usually means: Transformation of matter, mystical science.
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  1. alchemy: Merriam-Webster
  2. alchemy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alchemy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alchemy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alchemy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alchemy, alchemy: Wordnik
  7. alchemy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alchemy: Wiktionary
  9. alchemy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alchemy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alchemy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alchemy: Dictionary.com
  13. alchemy: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Alchemy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. alchemy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. alchemy: Rhymezone
  18. alchemy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. alchemy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. alchemy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. alchemy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. alchemy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. alchemy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. alchemy: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alchemy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Alchemy: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alchemy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alchemy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. alchemy: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  3. alchemy: Wordcraft Dictionary
  4. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alchemy: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alchemy: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alchemy: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See alchemic as well.)

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noun:  (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
noun:  (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
noun:  (computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

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