Usually means: Merged together two elements incorrectly.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word conflated:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. conflated: Merriam-Webster
  2. conflated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. conflated: Vocabulary.com
  4. conflated: Wordnik
  5. conflated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. conflated: Wiktionary
  7. Conflated, conflated: Dictionary.com
  8. Conflated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Conflated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. conflated: FreeDictionary.org
  11. conflated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conflated: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conflated: Encyclopedia

(Note: See conflate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (conflate)

verb:  To combine or mix together.
verb:  (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
verb:  (by extension) To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.
adjective:  (biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
noun:  (biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
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