 :For information about how to merge duplicate articles in Wikipedia, see ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Merge, merging, or merger can have several different meanings: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - In business and economics, a merger is the combination of two companies into one company
- In computer science, either:
- the merge algorithm which combines two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
- the merge sort, a sort algorithm that sorts a list by relying on the merge algorithm
- Merging simultaneously changed files in revision control
- Merge is a computer package, a cut-down 'Virtual Machine', for running Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
- Several areas of law express a merger doctrine - in criminal law, it characterises situations where one crime subsumes another; in copyright, it signifies that the expression of an idea is so closely related to the idea itself that they are the same thing, therefore unprotectable
- In linguistics, especially historical linguistics and dialectology, a merger is a sound change whereby two sounds that were originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same. The so-called cot-caught merger in modern American English is an example. See also phonemic differentiation
- In music,
- Merge (album) by Canadian musician Randy Bachman
- Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- In transport,
- merging is when a vehicle signals a lane change and then switches lanes, either because one lane is ending, to reach the correct lane to exit, or to reach a less congested lane in which one can go faster; merging is among the times when car accidents are more likely
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