Merge
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Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:

Concepts

  • Merger (politics), the combination of two or more political or administrative entities such as municipalities into a single entity
  • Mergers and acquisitions
    Mergers and acquisitions
    Mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or...

    , the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies
  • Merger doctrine (disambiguation) in law, multiple distinct uses according to law specialty
  • Merge (linguistics)
    Merge (linguistics)
    Merge is one of the basic operations in the Minimalist Program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects are combined to form a new syntactic unit . Merge also has the property of recursion in that it may apply to its own output: the objects combined by Merge are either...

    , 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

Computer science

  • Merge (revision control)
    Merge (revision control)
    Merging in revision control, is a fundamental operation that reconciles multiple changes made to a revision-controlled collection of files. 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 (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...

    , a 'Virtual Machine Monitor' computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
  • Merge (SQL)
    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...

    , a Data Manipulation Language statement in SQL
  • Merge algorithm
    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
  • Mail merge
    Mail merge
    Mail merge is a software function which allows to create multiple documents from a single template form and a structured data source.-History:This technique of merging data to create gave rise to the term mail merge....

    , the production of multiple documents from a single template form and a structured data source

Other

  • Merger (horse)
    Merger (horse)
    Merger is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1968 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious horse race....

    , a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Merge (magazine)
    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 and has found out that not may people care about this feature...

    , an Australian bi-monthly magazine
  • Merge (TV series), per List of programs broadcast by Lifetime
  • ME Research UK
    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, consequences and treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome , which in the United Kingdom is frequently referred to as myalgic...

    , formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome
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