blending

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛndɪŋ/

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.

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