blending

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Verb

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blending

  1. present participle and gerund of blend
    • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
      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.

Noun

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blending (plural blendings)

  1. The act or result of something being blended.
    blendings of old and new
    • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 60:
      Light and dark grounds are used indiscriminately, and indeed there is such a blending of the two styles that on some of the vases it would be difficult to say whether the design was light on dark, or dark on light.

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