# Merge

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'''Merge''' or '''merger''' may refer to:

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== Concepts ==
* [Merge (traffic)](/source/Merge_(traffic)), the reduction of the number of lanes on a road
* [Merge (linguistics)](/source/Merge_(linguistics)), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program
* [Merger (politics)](/source/Merger_(politics)), the combination of two or more political or administrative entities
* [Merger (phonology)](/source/Merger_(phonology)), phonological change whereby originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same
* [Mergers and acquisitions](/source/Mergers_and_acquisitions), the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies

==Arts, entertainment, and media==
* [Merger (band)](/source/Merger_(band)), a 1970s English reggae band
* [''Merging'' (play)](/source/Merging_(play)), a 2007 one act play written by Charles Messina
* [Merge Records](/source/Merge_Records), an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* ["Merger" (''The Office'')](/source/Merger_(The_Office)), a 2002 television episode
* ''Merge'', a [program broadcast by Lifetime](/source/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Lifetime)
* [''The Merge'' (novel)](/source/The_Merge_(novel)), a 2025 novel by Grace Walker

==Computer science==
* [Merge (version control)](/source/Merge_(version_control)), to combine simultaneously changed files in revision control
* [Merge (software)](/source/Merge_(software)), a Virtual Machine Monitor computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
* [Merge (SQL)](/source/Merge_(SQL)), a statement in SQL
* [Merge algorithm](/source/Merge_algorithm), an algorithm for combining two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
* [Mail merge](/source/Mail_merge), the production of multiple documents from a single template form and a structured data source
* [Randomness merger](/source/Randomness_merger), a function which combines several, perhaps correlated, random variables into one high-entropy random variable

== Other uses ==
* [Merger (horse)](/source/Merger_(horse)) (born 1965), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
* [ME Research UK](/source/ME_Research_UK), formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome
* [Mérges](/source/M%C3%A9rges), a place in Hungary

==See also==
* [The Merger (disambiguation)](/source/The_Merger_(disambiguation))
* [Merger doctrine (disambiguation)](/source/Merger_doctrine_(disambiguation))
* [Combine (disambiguation)](/source/Combine_(disambiguation))
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