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Merge, merging, or merger may mean:

• a merger, the combination of two or more churches or companies into one company
• merger doctrine in law
• phonemic mergers, a linguistic concept whereby two sounds that were originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same
• Merge (linguistics) is one of the basic syntactic operations in generative syntax

In computer science:

• the merge algorithm which combines two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one
• the merge sort, a sort algorithm that sorts a list by relying on the merge algorithm
• Merge (revision control), combines simultaneously changed files in revision control
• Merge (software) is a computer package, a cut-down 'Virtual Machine', for running Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
• merge (Unix), is a Unix program that can merge three modified versions of a file.
• merge (SQL) is a Data Manipulation Language statement in SQL.

In music:

• Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Merge (album) by Canadian musician Randy Bachman

In industry:

• Merge Healthcare, a medical software company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Merge (solutions), a marketing content management software company based in Toronto, Canada

In medical research:

• MERGE UK charity funding biomedical research into ME/CFS

In government:

• Municipal merger or amalgamation, where two or more cities, towns, etc, are merged into one