MERGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does merger mean? 

• MERGER (noun)
  The noun MERGER has 2 senses:

1. the combination of two or more commercial companies

2. an occurrence that involves the production of a union

  Familiarity information: MERGER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The combination of two or more commercial companies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

amalgamation; merger; uniting

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

fusion; merger; unification

Hypernyms ("merger" is a kind of...):

union (the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts)

Derivation:

merge (join or combine)

 Context examples 

Such a system could be formed as a consequence of the merger, billions of years earlier, of two galaxies that each contained a supermassive black hole.

(Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy, NASA)

Two primary ideas are the accumulation of material onto a white dwarf from a companion star or the violent merger of two white dwarfs.

(Trigger for Milky Way’s Youngest Supernova Identified, NASA)

This study looked at supermassive black holes within about 700 million light-years, meaning waves from a merger between any two of them would take up to that long to be detected here by scientists.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

In 2017, following the detection of gravitational waves passing the Earth, ESO pointed its telescopes in Chile, including the VLT, to the source: a neutron star merger named GW170817.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

The team also found what appears to be the earliest known example of two galaxies undergoing a merger, which is another major mechanism of galaxy growth.

(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Physicists have concluded that the detected gravitational waves were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole.

(Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction, NASA)

Even though the merger took place at a very remote epoch, the stars in the Sausage galaxy can be picked out today.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)

348 years after the initial event was observed, the remains of this explosive stellar merger have led to the clear and convincing signature of a radioactive version of aluminum, known as aluminium-26.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

The researchers recreated this genomic merger by crossing the two ancient peanuts species and analyzing the results in seven generations of offspring plants.

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

This is due at least in part to the merger of the two galaxies, which has triggered waves of star formation.

(Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash, NASA)