confounding
Speech parts
1. confounding - Noun
2. confounding - Verb
4. confounding - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Confound
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A growing number of cases in California, Washington state and Oregon are confounding authorities because the infected people hadn’t recently traveled overseas or had any known close contact with a traveler or an infected person.
By 1907 Einstein had framed the fundamentals of the theory of gravity, but then struggled for nearly 8 years with a confounding problem of putting the theory into final form.
Davis (2006), p. 212. Santa Anna led the bulk of his men up the Camino Real to approach Béxar from the west, confounding the Texians, who had expected any advancing troops to approach from the south.
Hermia and Lysander are both met by Puck, who provides some comic relief in the play by confounding the four lovers in the forest.
And then there’s the fact that women who dropped out of the exercise program could have done so for reasons of natural athletic ability or life stresses, both of which could be confounding factors.
Are there any adjusting methods for my confounding variables?