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Merge,
merging, or
merger may mean:
Concepts
- The combination of two or more organizations, such as cities or corporations, into one; see merger (politics) and mergers and acquisitions
The phrase mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly without having to create another...
respectively.
- Merger doctrine
The phrase merger doctrine or doctrine of merger may refer to one of several legal doctrines:* Merger doctrine * Merger doctrine * Merger doctrine...
in law, having different uses according to law specialty
- Merge (linguistics)
Merge is one of the basic operations in the Minimalist Program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects make up a new syntactic unit...
, one of the basic syntactic operations in generative syntax
- Merger (phonology), a type of phonological change whereby two sounds that were originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same
- 'Municipal merger' or Amalgamation (politics)
A merger or amalgamation in a political or administrative sense is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities such as municipalities , counties, districts, etc. into a single entity. This term is used when the process occurs within a sovereign entity...
, where two or more cities, towns, etc., are merged into one
Computer science
- Merge (revision control)
Merging is the act of reconciling multiple changes made to different copies of the same file. Most often, it is necessary when a file is modified by two people on two different computers at the same time...
, combines simultaneously changed files in revision control
- 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.Merge was originally developed to run DOS under UNIX System V Release 2 on an AT&T 6300+ personal computer...
is a 'Virtual Machine Monitor' computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
- merge (SQL)
A relational database management system uses SQL MERGE statements to INSERT new records or UPDATE existing records depending on whether or not a condition matches...
is a Data Manipulation Language statement in SQL
- Merge algorithm
Merge algorithms are a family of algorithms that run sequentially over multiple sorted lists, typically producing more sorted lists as output. This is well-suited for machines with tape drives...
which combines two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
Music
- Merge Records
Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance; it began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends.-History:...
, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Merge (album) by Canadian musician Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles Bachman, OC, OM was lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s-70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive...
- Merge (band) 1st EP Air SelfServeMusic 1992(C) Indie rock band based in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Other
- MERGE, the former name of 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 investigation into the causes and treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome , which is frequently referred to as myalgic ncephalomyelitis in the United Kingdom.The...
, the UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Merge (magazine)
Merge is an Australian magazine covering social and political topics in Australia. Initially in English the website is now translated into many languages...
, an Australian bi-monthly magazine