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Conflation occurs when two or more individuals, quantities, concepts, phenomena, ... are sharing characteristics of one another, and accordingly are merged (combined, unified, confused, ...) into one single identity, quantity or phenomenon.
Conflation may refer to:
- Conflation of Readings, term used in textual criticism, for combined readings from two manuscripts with different textual variants
- In linguistics, conflation is a synonym for the process of stemming
- 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. Conflation for digital maps refers to the process of associating real world coordinates to digital ones and it is named Map Matching
- Conflation (statistics), merging of two or more probability density functions into one density
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