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Conflation occurs when the identities of two or more individuals, concepts, or places, sharing some characteristics of one another, become confused until there seems to be only a single identity
Conflation may also refer to:
- In cartography, conflation refers to the act of combining two distinct maps into one new map. It is similar to the practice of image mosaicking. It is usually carried out by registration of an overlapping area.
- In physics, conflation refers to two distinct universes being combined and fused into one new universe.
- In linguistics, conflation is a synonym for the process of stemming
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