Conflation

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  • n. A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  • n. A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  • n. a fusing together; merger of two or more things or ideas into one.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The blowing of two or more musical instruments together.
  • n. A melting or casting of metal.
  • n. In diplomatics: An inadvertent combination of two readings of the same passage, so as to produce a new reading different from either.
  • n. A reading which has thus originated.
  • Word Usage
    "Semantics can often be a distraction, but in this case, the conflation is at least in part due to Behe's own voluntary participation in the Dover trial."
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