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MERGING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of joining together as one

Example:

there was no meeting of minds

Synonyms:

coming together; meeting; merging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

Synonyms:

confluence; conflux; merging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

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

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flowing together

Synonyms:

confluent; merging

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb merge

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 Context examples: 

Doing nothing, expecting nothing; merging night in day; feeling but the sensation of cold when I let the fire go out, of hunger when I forgot to eat: and then a ceaseless sorrow, and, at times, a very delirium of desire to behold my Jane again.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Bottom line is we really think our merging star hypothesis should be taken seriously right now, and we should be using the next few years to study this intensely so that if it does blow up we will know what led to that explosion, Molnar said.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)

Merging supermassive black holes create lower-frequency gravitational waves than the relatively small black holes LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and similar ground-based experiments can detect.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

Chandra and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) - managed by JPL as well - also found evidence for large amounts of gas and dust around one of the black holes, typical of a merging black hole system.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.

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

There are merging objects whose gravitational wave signals have not yet been detected: supermassive black holes, more than 100 million times more massive than our Sun.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)