CONFLATION Synonyms

• the act of blending components together thoroughly

• a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• combining into a solid mass

• the act of combining into an integral whole

• something that has consolidated into a compact mass

• an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• the state of being combined into one body

• the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

• a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

• the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept

• correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization

• the act of fusing (or melting) together

• the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

• the act of combining into an integral whole

• an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined

• the combination of two or more commercial companies

• an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• the act of joining together as one

• a flowing together

• flowing together

• (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)

• any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients

• a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

• an event that combines things in a mixture

• the act of mixing together

• the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)

• the combination of ideas into a complex whole

• reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

• the combination of two or more commercial companies

• the act of making or becoming a single unit