Merge

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Merge, merging, or merger can have several different meanings:

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• 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