(phonology) A phonemic merger where the vowels in "pin" and "pen" are pronounced the same before /n/ and /m/, making "pin" and "pen" homonyms.

plural of merger

(phonology) A merger in which [ʍ] (the voiceless sound heard at the beginning of the word whine in a Scottish accent or several accents in the United States) becomes [w] (the sound heard at the beginning of the word wine); in accents where this merger occurs, whine and wine are homophones.

Capable of being merged.

plural of phonemic merger

A phonemic merger in English of the vowels /ɑː/ (as in father) and /ɒ/ (as in bother).

simple past tense and past participle of mergesort

(computing) A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them together.

(transitive, computing) To sort with such an algorithm.

present participle of mergesort