plural of merger

One that merges.

The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.

plural of phonemic merger

Business transactions in which the ownership of companies are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.

(phonology) The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.

plural of wine-whine merger

(phonology) A phonemic merger in some varieties of English (especially American and Canadian English) in which the vowels in words such as hot and doll (/ɒ/) and in words such as law and talk (/ɔː/) are pronounced identically, making the words cot and caught homophones.

(phonology) The cot-caught merger.

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