The process of combining or blending together into a single unit or entity.
From Latin 'mergere' meaning 'to dip, plunge, or immerse.' The sense of 'combining' developed from the idea of one thing submerging into another until they blend together.
When companies merge, they literally 'dip' into each other until you can't tell where one ends and the other begins—which is exactly what the Latin root 'mergere' originally described!
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