Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:
Concepts
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Merge (traffic)
In traffic engineering, a merge is the point where two streams of traffic travelling in the same direction from multiple roads or in multiple lanes on the same road are required to merge into a single lane.
A merge may be a permanent road featur ...
, the reduction of the number of lanes on a road
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Merge (linguistics)
Merge (usually capitalized) is one of the basic operations in the Minimalist Program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects are combined to form a new syntactic unit (a set). Merge also has the property of recursion i ...
, a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program
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Merger (politics), the combination of two or more political or administrative entities
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Merger (phonology)
In historical linguistics, phonological change is any sound change that alters the distribution of phonemes in a language. In other words, a language develops a new system of oppositions among its phonemes. Old contrasts may disappear, new one ...
, phonological change whereby originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same
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Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization. As an aspect ...
, the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Merger (band)
Merger were an English reggae band of Jamaican/Ghanaian descent that formed in 1977 and lasted until 1980. Their name "Merger" comes from the fact that they blended reggae music with their other musical influences. Their debut album, ''Exiles In ...
, a 1970s English reggae band
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''Merging'' (play), a 2007 one act play written by Charles Messina
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Merge Records
Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as an outlet for music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expande ...
, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* ''Merge'', a
program broadcast by Lifetime
Computer science
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Merge (version control)
In version control, merging (also called integration) is a fundamental operation that reconciles multiple changes made to a version-controlled collection of files. Most often, it is necessary when a file is modified on two independent branches an ...
, to combine simultaneously changed files in revision control
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Merge (software)
Merge is a software system which allows a user to run DOS/Windows 3.1 on SCO UNIX, in an 8086 virtual machine.
History
Merge was originally developed to run DOS under UNIX System V Release 2 on an AT&T 6300 Plus personal computer. Developme ...
, a Virtual Machine Monitor computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
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Merge (SQL) A relational database management system uses SQL (also called ''upsert'') statements to INSERT new records or UPDATE existing records depending on whether condition matches. It was officially introduced in the SQL:2003 standard, and expanded i ...
, a statement in SQL
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Merge algorithm
Merge algorithms are a family of algorithms that take multiple sorted lists as input and produce a single list as output, containing all the elements of the inputs lists in sorted order. These algorithms are used as subroutines in various sorting ...
, an algorithm for combining two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
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Mail merge Mail merge consists of combining mail and letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a form letter.
This feature is usually employed in a word processing document which contains fixed text (which is the same in e ...
, the production of multiple documents from a single template form and a structured data source
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Randomness merger In extractor theory, a randomness merger is a function which extracts randomness out of a set of random variables, provided that at least one of them is uniformly random. Its name stems from the fact that it can be seen as a procedure which "merges ...
, a function which combines several, perhaps correlated, random variables into one high-entropy random variable
Other uses
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Merger (horse)
Merger (foaled 1965 in Alberta) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for c ...
(born 1965), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
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ME Research UK
ME Research UK is a medical research charity based in the United Kingdom with the principal aim of commissioning and funding scientific (biomedical) investigation into the causes, consequences and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fat ...
, formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome
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The Merger (disambiguation) The Merger may refer to:
* "The Merger" (''Dilbert'' episode), an episode of the ''Dilbert'' TV series
* "The Merger" (''The Office''), an episode of the American TV series ''The Office''
* ''The Merger'' (film), 2018 Australian comedy/drama film
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Merger doctrine (disambiguation)
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Combine (disambiguation)
Combine may refer to:
Machinery
* Combine harvester, or combine, a machine to harvest grain crops
* Combine seeder, or combine, a machine to plant seeds
Company structure
* Corporate group, an industrial business group in Western democracie ...
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