title: Merge
text: # 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
  