MERGE

'Merge', 'merging', or 'merger' may mean:

★ a merger, the combination of two or more churches or companies into one company

★ merger doctrine in law

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

★ Merge (linguistics) is one of the basic syntactic operations in generative syntax
In computer science:

★ 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''

★ Merge (revision control), combines simultaneously changed files in revision control

★ Merge (software) is a computer package, a cut-down 'Virtual Machine', for running 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.
In music:

★ Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

★ Merge (album) by Canadian musician Randy Bachman
In industry:

★ Merge Healthcare, a medical software company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

★ Merge (solutions), a marketing content management software company based in Toronto, Canada
In medical research:

★ MERGE UK charity funding biomedical research into ME/CFS
In government:

★ Municipal merger or amalgamation, where two or more cities, towns, etc, are merged into one