Usually means: Factors that obscure relationships, variables.
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  1. confounds: Merriam-Webster
  2. confounds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confounds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Confounds, confounds: Wordnik
  5. confounds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confounds: Wiktionary
  7. confounds: Dictionary.com
  8. confounds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. confounds: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. confounds: Legal dictionary

(Note: See confound as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (confound)

verb:  To perplex or puzzle.
verb:  To stun or amaze.
verb:  To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
verb:  (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
verb:  To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
verb:  To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
verb:  To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
verb:  (dated) To damn (a mild oath).
verb:  (archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
noun:  (statistics) A confounding variable.
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