Merge Explained

Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:

Concepts

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

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

Merger (horse) (born 1965), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
ME Research UK, formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome