merge
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
merge/mɜːʤ/
▶verb combine or be combined to form a single entity.
■ blend or cause to blend gradually into something else.
■ (usu. merge something in) Law absorb (a title or estate) in another.
– origin C17 (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from L. mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman Fr. merger.
'merge' also found in these Oxford entries:
combine
- correspondence principle
- elide
- fade
- fudge
- interpenetrate
- mail merge
- melt
- merger
