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MERGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formed or united into a whole
Synonyms:
incorporate; incorporated; integrated; merged; unified
Classified under:
Similar:
united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb merge
Context examples:
For many years, Yakutat’s two main tributaries merged and formed a 5-kilometer (3-mile) calving face that extended far into Harlequin Lake.
(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)
The astronomers also determined that the two stars that merged were of relatively low mass, one being a red giant star with a mass somewhere between 0.8 and 2.5 times that of our Sun.
(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)
The remains of his coat still hung in strips from his shoulders, but his shirt had been all torn out, and his great beard merged itself in the black tangle which covered his mighty chest.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An NCI-supported clinical cooperative group dedicated to conduct clinical research on childhood cancer, in 2001 was merged with the National Wilms Tumor Study Group, the Pediatric Oncology Group and the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group to form a new national organization, the Children's Oncology Group.
(Children's Cancer Group, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by P waves which typically occur nearly simultaneously with the QRS complex, resulting in a P wave which is obscured by the QRS, merged with the QRS or which may follow the QRS.
(Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The story of the cultivated peanut begins several thousand years ago in South America, where the genomes of two wild ancestors, A. duranensis and A. ipaensis, merged in a rare genetic event.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
My dream was very peculiar, and was almost typical of the way that waking thoughts become merged in, or continued in, dreams.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
This look gave way to one of wonder, which merged in doubt; then, to my intense astonishment, he said:—"You're not the girl the doctor wanted to marry, are you? You can't be, you know, for she's dead."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
