Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:
Concepts
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Merge (traffic), the reduction of the number of lanes on a road
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Merge (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program
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Merger (politics)
A merger, consolidation or amalgamation, in a political or administrative sense, is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipality, municipalities (in other words city, cities, towns, etc.), county, co ...
, the combination of two or more political or administrative entities
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Merger (phonology), 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), to combine simultaneously changed files in revision control
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Merge (software), 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 statement in SQL
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Merge algorithm, an algorithm for combining two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
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Mail merge, the production of multiple documents from a single template form and a structured data source
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Randomness merger, a function which combines several, perhaps correlated, random variables into one high-entropy random variable
Other uses
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Merger (horse) (born 1965), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
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ME Research UK, formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome
See also
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The Merger (disambiguation)
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Merger doctrine (disambiguation) The phrase merger doctrine or doctrine of merger may refer to one of several legal doctrines:
* Merger doctrine (antitrust law)
* Merger doctrine (civil procedure)
* Merger doctrine (copyright law)
* Merger doctrine (criminal law)
* Merger doctrine ...
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Combine (disambiguation)
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