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Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:

Concepts

  • Merge (traffic), the reduction of the number of lanes on a road
  • Merge (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program
  • Merger (politics), the combination of two or more political or administrative entities
  • Merger (phonology), phonological change whereby originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same
  • Mergers and acquisitions, the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Merger (band), a 1970s English reggae band
  • Merging (play), a 2007 one act play written by Charles Messina
  • Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Merge, a program broadcast by Lifetime

Computer science

  • Merge (version control), to combine simultaneously changed files in revision control
  • Merge (software), a Virtual Machine Monitor computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
  • Merge (SQL), a statement in SQL
  • Merge algorithm, an algorithm for combining two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
  • Mail merge, the production of multiple documents from a single template form and a structured data source
  • Randomness merger, a function which combines several, perhaps correlated, random variables into one high-entropy random variable

Other uses

  • Merger (horse) (born 1965), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
  • ME Research UK, formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome

See also

  • The Merger (disambiguation)
  • Merger doctrine (disambiguation)
  • Combine (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Merge
  • All pages with titles containing Merge
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