Definition of "merge"

merge

/mɜːd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present merges, present participle merging, simple past and past participle merged
1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole.
  Quotations
  to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity
  1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly
  Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty.
  1835 January, [Thomas De Quincey], “Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By the English Opium-eater. […]”, in William Tait, editor, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume II, number XIII, Edinburgh: William Tait […], page 8, column 1
2. To blend gradually into something else.
noun
plural merges
1. The joining together of multiple sources.