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merge

verb
/mɜːd͡ʒ/UK/mɝd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from mergō — “to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”

Definitions

  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

  2. To blend gradually into something else.

    • The lanes of traffic merged.

  3. The joining together of multiple sources.

    • There are often accidents at that traffic merge.
    • The merge of the two documents failed.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

The neighborhood

Derived

commerge, demerge, mergeability, mergeable, mergeburst, mergee, merge-purge, merger, merge sort, mergism, mergist, mismerge, remerge, unmerge, urge to merge, mail merge, match-merge, merge lane, merge request, mergesort, zipper merge

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at merge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01merge02joining03join04association05measured06written07write08compose09merging

A definitional loop anchored at merge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at merge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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