merge

verb

1. 1

   To combine into a whole.

   Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.

   The two companies merged.

   to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity

   Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty.

2. 2

   To combine two or more versions of a file into one file, especially using a version control system.

3. 3

   To blend gradually into something else.

   The lanes of traffic merged.

   The sky and sea seem to merge at the horizon.

noun

1. 1

   The joining together of multiple sources.

   There are often accidents at that traffic merge.

   The merge of the two documents failed.

2. 2

   Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

Forms

plural

merges

past tense

merged

past participle

merged

present participle

merging

third person singular

merges