ALLIGATION, the name of a method of solving all questions that relate to the mixture of one ingredient with another. Though writers on arithmetic generally make alligation a branch of that science; yet, as it is plainly nothing more than an application of the common properties of numbers, in order to solve a few questions
Alligation. questions that occur in particular branches of business, we choose rather to keep it distinct from the science of arithmetic.
Alligation is generally divided in medial and alternate.