MERGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does merged mean? 

• MERGED (adjective)
  The adjective MERGED has 1 sense:

1. formed or united into a whole

  Familiarity information: MERGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formed or united into a whole

Synonyms:

incorporate; incorporated; integrated; merged; unified

Similar:

united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)

 Context examples 

In 2001 NWTSG was merged into the Children's Oncology Group.

(National Wilms' Tumor Study Group, NCI Thesaurus)

Then, on one side and the other, she ran along the base of the wall to where its abrupt bulk merged from the softer-lined landscape.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Clumps of dust and ice aggregated into comets and asteroids, some of which collided together to form moon-sized objects or planetesimals, and some of those eventually merged to become planets.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

The presence of two such monsters at the center of a single galaxy means that the galaxy merged with another some time in the past.

(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As they drew closer and orbited faster, the stars eventually broke apart and merged, producing both a gamma-ray burst and a rarely seen flare-up called a "kilonova."

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

Merged with the Division of Basic Sciences in January, 2001 to form the Center for Cancer Research

(Division of Clinical Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)

All merged in my friendship, Sophia.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This results in a P wave or QRS complex that displays merged characteristics of beats originating from the two different sites.

(Fusion Complex, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Now, using advanced DNA sequencing equipment, the researchers have sequenced the two merged genomes in a single commercially grown peanut, namely ‘Tifrunner,’ filling in knowledge gaps that the previous effort missed.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft effect of the light over the sea and sky—merged together in one great, silent mystery—was beautiful beyond words.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)