Merge

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Contents 1 In concepts 2 In computer science 3 In buildings 4 In music 5 In industry 6 In medical research 7 In journalism

Merge, merging, or merger may mean:

[edit] In concepts

• Merger, the combination of two or more organisations, especially corporations, into one
• Merger doctrine in law, having different uses according to law specialty
• Merge (linguistics), one of the basic syntactic operations in generative syntax

• phonemic mergers, a linguistic concept whereby two sounds that were originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same

• 'Municipal merger' or Amalgamation (politics), where two or more cities, towns, etc, are merged into one

[edit] In computer science

• Merge (revision control), combines simultaneously changed files in revision control
• Merge (software) is a 'Virtual Machine Monitor' computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
• merge (Unix), is a Unix program that can merge three modified versions of a file
• merge (SQL) is a Data Manipulation Language statement in SQL.
• Merge algorithm which combines two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
  • Merge sort, a sort algorithm that sorts a list by relying on the merge algorithm

[edit] In buildings

• Merge in Takapuna, a proposed mixed-use skyscraper development in North Shore City, New Zealand

[edit] In music

• Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Merge (album) by Canadian musician Randy Bachman

[edit] In industry

• Merge Healthcare, a medical software company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Merge (solutions), a marketing content management software company based in Toronto, Canada

[edit] In medical research

• MERGE UK charity funding biomedical research into ME/CFS

[edit] In journalism

• MERGE An Australian bi-monthly magazine