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Two things become one, and only the traffic sign apologizes for it.
means To combine two or more things so thoroughly that they function as a single, unified thing.
from From Latin 'mergere,' meaning to dip, plunge, or sink into — like submerging something into a liquid until it disappears beneath the surface. English borrowed it in the 1600s for legal contexts, where a lesser estate or claim could 'merge' into a greater one and effectively vanish into it. The sense widened over time from legal absorption to the general idea of blending anything — companies, lanes, identities — until the seams disappear.
- git merge
- Can create conflicts humans must resolve manually.
- corporate mergers
- Most destroy shareholder value, studies consistently find.
- lane merging
- Zipper merging at the last second reduces congestion.
- same root
- Submerge and emerge share mergere's drowning logic.