merge

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).

verb

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole.
    Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.
    The two companies merged.
    Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty. 1835 January, [Thomas De Quincey], “Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By the English Opium-eater.[…]”, in William Tait, editor, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume II, number XIII, Edinburgh: William Tait[…], →OCLC, page 8, column 1
  2. To blend gradually into something else.
    The lanes of traffic merged.

noun

  1. The joining together of multiple sources.
    There are often accidents at that traffic merge.
    The merge of the two documents failed.

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