- a statutory combination of two or more corporations by the transfer of the properties to one surviving corporation.
- any combination of two or more business enterprises into a single enterprise.
- an act or instance of merging: Astronomers say that the merger of galaxies can take a billion years.
- the process or phenomenon whereby two distinct speech sounds come to be pronounced identically: for instance, the cot–caught vowel merger has taken place in some dialects of English.
- the combination of two or more companies, either by the creation of a new organization or by absorption by one of the others
- the extinguishment of an estate, interest, contract, right, offence, etc, by its absorption into a greater one
- the act of merging or the state of being merged
