MIXING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mixing mean? 

• MIXING (noun)
  The noun MIXING has 1 sense:

1. the act of mixing together

  Familiarity information: MIXING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIXING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of mixing together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

admixture; commixture; intermixture; mix; mixing; mixture

Context example:

the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio

Hypernyms ("mixing" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Derivation:

mix (add as an additional element or part)

mix (combine (electronic signals))

mix (to bring or combine together or with something else)

 Context examples 

In contrast, several different sets of DNA segments inherited from Denisovans were identified in people from Oceania and East Asia, suggesting at least two distinct mixing events.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

A compound formed by mixing different substances together; an ingredient added in small quantity.

(Admixture, NCI Thesaurus)

Lady Catherine continued her remarks on Elizabeth's performance, mixing with them many instructions on execution and taste.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In laboratory trials, mixing the modified tunicamycin with oxacillin and other penicillin-based drugs made them 32 to 64 times more potent.

(Soil Bacterium Tapped for Penicillin Guard Duty, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The pine needles showed the degree of mixing of the two.

(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

A pooled blood sample that resulted from a mixing procedure performed on several blood samples taken from individual animals.

(Biospecimen, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

It's much against the grain with me, I assure you, Copperfield, to be concerned in anything so unpleasant; but really, as it is, we're all mixing ourselves up with what oughtn't to be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Any mixing operation not otherwise specified.

(Mixing, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

I do not give you glass, for that is another matter, and takes much skill in the mixing of colors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mixing of dry ingredients by repetitive tumbling.

(Dry Powder Diffusion Mixing, NCI Thesaurus)