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Blending (linguistics), the process of forming a word from two or more letters that represent the sounds of a word; Blending (music), a technique used in instrument playing; Blending (vocal technique), a technique used in vocal warm up; Blending curves, in mathematics; Blending inheritance, a hypothetical model prior to the discovery of genetics
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau [a] —is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] English examples include smog , coined by blending smoke and fog , [ 3 ] [ 5 ] and motel , from motor ( motorist ) and hotel .
Conceptual blending is closely related to frame-based theories, but goes beyond these primarily in that it is a theory of how to combine frames (or frame-like objects). An early computational model of a process called "view application", which is closely related to conceptual blending (which did not exist at the time), was implemented in the 1980s by Shrager at Carnegie Mellon University and ...
A blending term used to refer to either blending a wine with one distinct characteristic (such as high acidity) into a wine that currently dominated by the opposite characteristic (such as low acidity). It can also mean blending a red wine with a white wine in order to make a rosé.
Blend modes (alternatively blending modes [1] or mixing modes [2]) in digital image editing and computer graphics are used to determine how two layers are blended ...
Blending inheritance is an obsolete theory in biology from the 19th century. The theory is that the progeny inherits any characteristic as the average of the parents' values of that characteristic. As an example of this, a crossing of a red flower variety with a white variety of the same species would yield pink-flowered offspring.
Mixing of liquids occurs frequently in process engineering. The nature of liquids to blend determines the equipment used. Single-phase blending tends to involve low-shear, high-flow mixers to cause liquid engulfment, while multi-phase mixing generally requires the use of high-shear, low-flow mixers to create droplets of one liquid in laminar, turbulent or transitional flow regimes, depending ...
Data blending is a process whereby big data from multiple sources [1] are merged into a single data warehouse or data set. [ 2 ] Data blending allows business analysts to cope with the expansion of data that they need to make critical business decisions based on good quality business intelligence . [ 3 ]