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merge

[murj]

verb (used with object)

to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.

to combine, blend, or unite gradually so as to blur the individuality or individual identity of: They voted to merge the two branch offices into a single unit.

verb (used without object)

to become combined, united, swallowed up, or absorbed; lose identity by uniting or blending (often followed by in or into): This stream merges into the river up ahead.

to combine or unite into a single enterprise, organization, body, etc.: The two firms merged last year.

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Origin:
1630–40; < Latin mergere to dip, immerse, plunge into water

Related forms

mer·gence, noun

an·ti·merg·ing, adjective

de·merge, verb (used with object), -merged, -merg·ing.

re·merge, verb, -merged, -merg·ing.

un·merge, verb (used with object), -merged, -merg·ing.

Synonyms
1, 2, 3. amalgamate, consolidate.

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Three companies that provide home infusion services announced yesterday that they would merge.

Some interdisciplinary fields evolve from an appropriate confluence of disciplines that merge because of the research findings.

Possibly, the answer to the question of how to merge might be: don't.

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Three companies that provide home infusion services announced yesterday that they would merge.

Some interdisciplinary fields evolve from an appropriate confluence of disciplines that merge because of the research findings.

Possibly, the answer to the question of how to merge might be: don't.

Two stars merge to form a blue straggler in an artist's conception.

Futurists and science-fiction writers speculate about a time when brain activity will merge with computers.

Vanderbilt says he decided to write about driving on a whim, in the midst of performing a daring highway merge maneuver.

On ripening fruit, cream-colored concentric areas grow and merge over the whole fruit.

If he's right, exponential progress in science and engineering will allow us to merge with machines.

The core then collapses into an object so dense that its protons and electrons merge to form neutrons.

Separate smaller huddles can also merge into larger clusters.

In a similar way, the protogalaxies would then merge to form galaxies, and the galaxies would congregate into galaxy clusters.

Others scan lateral areas, helping robotic vehicles to abide basic rules of four-way stops or even to merge into moving traffic.

After several conversations, the two companies agreed to merge.

If that is true under the present arrangements, it will be more so after they merge.

The new model shows the likelihood of various possible fates for our own solar system as the enormous galaxies bump and merge.

From a long distance they merge into the hypotenuse.

Biohybrid prostheses merge man-made devices with human muscles, bone and nerves.

We have earned our freedom and soverignity after a blood bath with occupation forces not to merge with anyone.

Dark matter, meanwhile, continued to merge and grow into ever larger structures.

On a still smaller scale, dark energy has reduced the rate at which galaxies yank on, bang into and merge with one another.

Astronomers think galaxies frequently collide and merge to make bigger galaxies.

Scientists have shown that pairs of galaxies-and their black holes-often merge together.

It will even merge this data with occupancy calendars and local weather predictions.

Can merge a contact's various accounts into a single entry.

The wind picked up in the afternoon, forcing the hot daytime temperatures to merge into a cold evening.

In some billions of years they will merge and create a new galaxy.

Some believe that he may have been trying to merge the two gods into one.

In the natural world, systems merge and evolve into something else.

To stay alive, some schools will have to merge with other schools.

But when you put it down, the droplets merge and the dressing separates.

They have the power to merge threads, but so far this has not happened.

Galaxies in such groups often interact and even merge together in a dynamic cosmic dance of interacting gravity.

It attempts to merge a business model with creative engineering to solve the widespread problem of water shortages.

Old and more recent rituals merge in the advertising campaign for her cake.

Tanzania is a future-oriented nation, anxious to merge into the slipstream of the global economy.

Later, merge arrows routed traffic around a medical emergency.

Eventually even my consciousness will merge with that of others.

At present, four of the world's six biggest accounting firms are fighting with regulators for the right to merge into two.

Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called.

Frenzied talks are already underway to agree a deal that would allow the two parties to merge for the second round.

But the coming of age of its popular music has seen the rise of singers who merge or completely transcend ethnic genres.

In the prevailing, so-called hierarchical view of galactic growth, galaxies merge over time to form ever-larger galactic bodies.

Once that happens, they'd feel the full force of gravity, and immediately merge to form a tiny black hole.

Now, the health reforms are piling on the pressure to merge.

In this region, the solar-wind plasma starts to merge with the plasma of the interstellar medium beyond the solar system.

He fought the urge to merge at the first indication that his.

They become chimeras not because their embryos merge but because more often than not their placentas do.

On occasions when a truce is struck between neighbors, the pair will merge territories-temporarily.

The birds might even return to the fold of their parent species, and merge with them through interbreeding.

The logical response was to merge their operations there, to save on procurement and rationalise their overlapping infrastructure.

It manages to merge the two by positing a set of extra dimensions beyond the usual four.

The biggest challenge is to merge parts of the job-centres with the welfare offices.

Those missing black hole pairs posed problems for theories of how galaxies merge and grow.

They might even merge with other municipalities to eliminate duplication of services.

When two lovers decide to merge their lives, a shiny ring often comes into the picture.

Goldin had been looking for a way to merge her art background with her inner geek.

Often, motorists must yield to a cyclist if the cyclist has the right of way, such as during a merge or a four-way stop.

Eventually, the black hole will merge with its neighbor.

Huge corporations continue to merge and get even bigger.

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World English Dictionary

merge (mɜːdʒ)

—vb
1.	to meet and join or cause to meet and join
2.	to blend or cause to blend; fuse

[C17: from Latin mergere to plunge]

'mergence

—n

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Word Origin & History

merge

1630s, "to plunge or sink in," from L. mergere "to dip, immerse," probably rhotacized from *mezgo, and cognate with Skt. majjati "dives under," Lith. mazgoju "to wash." Legal sense of "absorption of an estate, contract, etc. into another" is from 1726.

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