"conflation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /kənˈfleɪʃən/ Forms: conflations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin cōnflātiō, from Latin cōnflātus. By surface analysis, conflate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|cōnflātiō}} Late Latin cōnflātiō, {{der|en|la|cōnflātus}} Latin cōnflātus, {{surf|en|conflate|-ion}} By surface analysis, conflate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} conflation (countable and uncountable, plural conflations)
  1. (countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. Tags: countable Translations (a blowing or fusing together): samenspel [neuter] (Dutch), samensmelting [feminine] (Dutch), yhdistäminen (Finnish), sekoittaminen (Finnish), sulauttaminen (Finnish), Verschmelzung (German), συγκερασμός (sygkerasmós) (Greek), σύγχυση (sýnchysi) (Greek), συνδυασμός (syndyasmós) (Greek), egybeolvadás (english: instance, process) (Hungarian), összeolvadás (Hungarian), egybeesés (Hungarian), összeolvasztás (note: action) (Hungarian), egybeolvasztás (Hungarian), összekombinálás (Hungarian), egyesítés (Hungarian), összeollózás (Hungarian), összemosás (Hungarian), összekeverés (Hungarian), fusão [feminine] (Portuguese), объединение (obʺjedinenije) [neuter] (Russian), соединение (sojedinenije) [neuter] (Russian), слияние (slijanije) [neuter] (Russian), confundistizaciación [neuter] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-conflation-en-noun-3YMmPlaY Disambiguation of 'a blowing or fusing together': 89 11
  2. (uncountable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-conflation-en-noun-rRyftGy7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 24 76
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