blending

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛndɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• blendingly

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• alpha blending
• blending inheritance
• deblending