<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a statutory combination of two or more corporations by the transfer of the properties to one surviving corporation.</li><li>any combination of two or more business enterprises into a single enterprise.</li><li>an act or instance of merging: Astronomers say that the merger of galaxies can take a billion years.</li><li>Phonetics: the process or phenomenon whereby two distinct speech sounds come to be pronounced identically: for instance, the cot–caught vowel merger has taken place in some dialects of English.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>