1. A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert: There have been conflations of many fires in the dry brush and forest areas of Australia.
2. The process or result of fusing items into one entity, such as fusion; amalgamation: The method of combining two individual maps in cartography into one new map is termed conflation.
3. The combination of two variant texts into a new one: The author, Mrs. Black, used the method of conflation by combining the content of two of her stories into one.
4. The combining or blending of two or more versions of a text; confusion or mixing up: Somehow Jane got muddles up while answering the questions in her exam, and her teacher commented that a condition of conflation occurred in her answers.