Merge
Appearance
Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:
Concepts
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Merger (horse) (born 1965), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
- ME Research UK, formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome