Mergence


[murj] /mɜrdʒ/

verb (used with object), merged, merging.
1.
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
2.
to combine, blend, or unite gradually so as to blur the individuality or individual identity of:
They voted to merge the two branch offices into a single unit.
verb (used without object), merged, merging.
3.
to become combined, united, swallowed up, or absorbed; lose identity by uniting or blending (often followed by in or into):
This stream merges into the river up ahead.
4.
to combine or unite into a single enterprise, organization, body, etc.:
The two firms merged last year.
/mɜːdʒ/
verb
1.
to meet and join or cause to meet and join
2.
to blend or cause to blend; fuse
v.

1630s, “to plunge or sink in,” from Latin mergere “to dip, dip in, immerse, plunge,” probably rhotacized from *mezgo, from PIE *mezg- “to dip, plunge” (cf. Sanskrit majjati “dives under,” Lithuanian mazgoju “to wash”). Legal sense of “absorb an estate, contract, etc. into another” is from 1726. Related: Merged; merging. As a noun, from 1805.

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