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MERGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The combination of two or more commercial companies
Synonyms:
amalgamation; merger; uniting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("merger" is a kind of...):
consolidation; integration (the act of combining into an integral whole)
Derivation:
merge (join or combine)
merge (become one)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An occurrence that involves the production of a union
Synonyms:
fusion; merger; unification
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("merger" is a kind of...):
union (the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts)
Derivation:
merge (join or combine)
Context examples:
Such mergers will produce ripples through spacetime called gravitational waves.
(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)
High-energy neutrinos are hard-to-catch particles that scientists think are created by the most powerful events in the cosmos, such as galaxy mergers and material falling onto supermassive black holes.
(NASA’s Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole, NASA)
LIGO tells us there was a merger of compact objects, and Fermi tells us there was a short gamma-ray burst.
(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)
Formed in Jan, 2001 by the merger of the Division of Clinical Sciences and the Division of Basic Sciences, the Center for Cancer Research is the largest component of the National Cancer Institute's Intramural Research Program.
(NCI Center for Cancer Research, NCI Thesaurus)
The Children's Oncology Group was formed by the merger of the four national pediatric cancer research organizations: the Children's Cancer Group, the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group, the National Wilm's Tumor Study Group, and the Pediatric Oncology Group.
(Children's Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)
Probably through mergers.
(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The team determined that galactic winds alone could not replenish the newly revealed gaseous reservoirs and suggests that the mass is provided by galactic mergers or accretion from hidden streams of gas, as predicted by current theory.
(ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies, ESO)
The detected gravitational waves — ripples in space and time — were emitted during the final moments of the merger of two black holes, one with a mass about 31 times that of our sun, the other about 25 times the mass of the sun.
(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)
In particular, an increase in X-ray and radio brightness of the supernova remnant with time, is expected only if a white dwarf merger took place.
(Trigger for Milky Way’s Youngest Supernova Identified, NASA)
The study also estimates how long it will take to detect one of these mergers.
(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)
