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Blending

//ˈblɛndɪŋ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or result of something being blended.

    "blendings of old and new"

  2. 2
    the act of blending components together thoroughly wordnet
  3. 3
    a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of blend form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English blendinge, equivalent to blend + -ing.

Etymology 2

From blend + -ing. Cognate with Faroese blending (“mixture, crossing”).

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