Merge

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

Computer science

• Merge (revision 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
• Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• ME Research UK, formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Merge, a program broadcast by Lifetime
• Merging (play), a 2007 one act play written by Charles Messina

See also

• Merger doctrine
• Combine