MERGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does merging mean? 

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

1. the act of joining together as one

2. a flowing together

  Familiarity information: MERGING used as a noun is rare.

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

1. flowing together

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of joining together as one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coming together; meeting; merging

Context example:

there was no meeting of minds

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

convergence; convergency; converging (the act of converging (coming closer))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "merging"):

concourse; confluence (a coming together of people)

Derivation:

merge (become one)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A flowing together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

confluence; conflux; merging

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

blend; blending (the act of blending components together thoroughly)

• MERGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flowing together

Synonyms:

confluent; merging

Similar:

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

 Context examples 

The same short, broad figure, the same heavy shoulders, the same forward hang of the arms, the same bristling beard merging itself in the hairy chest.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Hubble photographed the galaxy, astronomers expected to see a chaotic ball of stars formed through galaxies merging together.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It contains two galaxies that are merging, creating a partially blended mix of stars from each galaxy in the process.

(Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash, NASA)

The merging stars likely had masses between 10 and 60 percent greater than that of our Sun, but they were no wider than Washington, D.C.

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

For example, black holes merging in the large galaxy M87 would have a 4-million-year window of detection.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

Based on these facts, and other indicators, researchers recently proposed that the icy moons formed from ring particles and then moved outward, away from the planet, merging with other moons on the way.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

Three supermassive black holes merging behave differently than just a pair.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

An experiment using the technique of merging two plants, known as grafting, resulted in higher fruit yield during periods of less rain.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

His dream was merging into something else—he knew not what; but through it all, following him, persisted the howling.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Membrane Fusion Activity involves merging of adjacent structures delimited by lipid bilayer membranes into a single structure.

(Membrane Fusion Activity, NCI Thesaurus)