Merge
# Merge

Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:

## Concepts

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

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Merger (band), a 1970s English reggae band
* Merging (play), a 2007 one act play written by Charles Messina
* Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* Merge, a program broadcast by Lifetime

## Computer science

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

## Other uses

* Merger (horse) (born 1965), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse
* ME Research UK, formerly MERGE, a UK charity funding biomedical research into Chronic fatigue syndrome
