If one thing merges with another, or is merged with another, they combine or come together to make one whole thing. You can also say that two things merge, or are merged. Bank of America merged with a rival bank The rivers merge just north of a vital irrigation system The two countries merged into one He sees sense in merging the two agencies while both are new Then he showed me how to merge the graphic with text on the same screen
If one sound, colour, or object merges into another, the first changes so gradually into the second that you do not notice the change. Like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background His features merged with the darkness Night and day begin to merge
In word processing or database management software, a merge is the process of combining information from a data source, such as a list of names and addresses, with a document such as a form letter, catalog, labels or envelopes The "form" document contains codes that are replaced with information from the data file when the two files are merged
Take two or more fields of the same type (e g , land, ocean, and ice surface temperatures), which are all on the same domain (e g , all on a T42 grid, global domain), and the same number of corresponding cell fractions (fraction of land, ocean, and ice, which together sum to unity), and create one field ( e g , (merged surface temperature) = (ice frac)*(ice T) + (ocn frac)*(ocn T) + (lnd frac)*(lnd T) )
is the process of combining the contents of two or more files into a single file Typically, the files involved in a merge are versions of a single Repository file A merge can be done automatically, but often requires manual intervention to resolve conflicts SNiFF+'sDiff/Merge tool is used for merging files
A model developed by researchers at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) that builds on the work of the EPRI's Global 2200 model Five world regions, each with a singe consumer-producer, are used to model both savings and consumption decisions A simple climate model is used to determine global-average temperature change MERGE can be used to model willingness to pay in each world region to avoid a specific level of temperature change See EPRI in this glossary
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[ 'm&rj ] (verb.) 1636. Latin mergere; akin to Sanskrit majjati he dives.