blending

blend

B0320200 (blĕnd)v. blend·ed or blent (blĕnt), blend·ing, blends v.tr.1. To combine or mix (different substances) so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable from one another: blended the flour, milk, and eggs; blend gasoline with ethanol.2. To combine (varieties or grades of the same substance) to obtain a mixture of a particular character, quality, or consistency: blend coffees.3. To combine (different elements) into a single entity: a career that blends medicine and engineering. See Synonyms at mix.v.intr.1. To form a uniform mixture: "The smoke blended easily into the odor of the other fumes" (Norman Mailer).2. To be unobtrusive or harmonious by resembling the surroundings or behaving like others in a group. Often used with in: a female pheasant is brown and blends in with its nesting ground.3. To create a harmonious effect or result: picked a tie that blended with the jacket.n.1. a. The act of blending: the writer's unique blend of fantasy and physics.b. Something, such as an effect or a product, that is created by blending: "His face shows, as he stares at the fire, a blend of fastidiousness and intransigence" (John Fowles).2. Linguistics A word produced by combining parts of other words, as smog from smoke and fog.

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[Middle English blenden, probably from Old Norse blanda, blend-; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	blending - the act of blending components together thoroughlyblendcompounding, combining, combination - the act of combining things to form a new wholeconflux, merging, confluence - a flowing togetherhomogenisation, homogenization - the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition; "the homogenization of cream"; "the network's homogenization of political news"
	2.	blending - a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between gradesshadinggradation, graduation - the act of arranging in grades

Translations

Kontaminationσύμμειξηкомпаундирование