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Meresamun
Meresamun was an Egyptian woman of Thebes who lived about 800 BC and held the title Singer in the Interior of the Temple of Amun, known from her unopened mummy in Chicago.
Meresankh I
Meresankh I was an ancient Egyptian royal woman of the late Third Dynasty. She is presumed to be the mother of Sneferu and perhaps the wife of Huni.
Meresankh II
Meresankh II was a royal woman of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, identified as a daughter of Khufu and buried in mastaba G 7410 in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza.
Meresankh III
Meresankh III was a royal woman of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a granddaughter of Khufu and wife of Khafre or possibly Menkaure, known for her well-preserved tomb in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza.
Meret-Isesi
Meret-Isesi was a princess of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, a daughter of King Djedkare Isesi named among his daughters buried at Abusir.
Meretnebty
Meretnebty was a queen consort of King Sahure of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, around 2487–2475 BC, known from reliefs at his pyramid complex at Abusir.
Meretrix lusoria
Meretrix lusoria (Asian hard clam, hamaguri) is an East Asian venerid clam of Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan, farmed for food; its taxonomy overlaps disputedly with M. petechialis and M. meretrix, and the Taiwanese clam is now M. taiwanica.
Meretseger (queen)
Meretseger is a putative queen consort of Senusret III, a Twelfth Dynasty king of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, known only from a contested pectoral found at Dahshur.
Meretz (מרצ)
Meretz (מרצ), Israeli left-Zionist social-democratic party founded 1992 from Ratz, Mapam, and Shinui; 12-seat 1992 peak, Oslo-era coalition role, 2022 threshold failure, and 2023 merger with Labor into The Democrats.
MERFISH
MERFISH (multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization) is an imaging method measuring the copy numbers and spatial locations of hundreds to thousands of RNA species in single cells.
Merge sort
Merge sort is a divide-and-conquer, comparison-based sorting algorithm that recursively sorts halves and merges them, with a guaranteed O(n log n) worst case and stable output.
Merge tree
A merge tree is a topological data analysis structure that records how the connected components of a scalar function's sublevel sets merge as the threshold value rises.
Mergekit
MergeKit is an open-source toolkit for model merging, combining fine-tuned model weights into a single multitask model by arithmetic alone, created by Charles Goddard in 2023.
Merger (gravitational-wave astronomy)
A merger in gravitational-wave astronomy is the final collision of two black holes or neutron stars that spiraled together, recorded on Earth as a transient ripple in spacetime.
Merger control
Merger control is the body of competition law requiring firms to notify planned mergers to a public authority, which may block or condition deals harming competition.
Merger of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines
The merger of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines is the $1.9 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Holdings by Alaska Air Group, announced in December 2023 and completed in September 2024.
Merger of AOL and Time Warner
The merger of AOL and Time Warner, announced in January 2000, was the largest merger in American business history, using AOL's inflated stock to acquire Time Warner.
Merger of Discovery, Inc. and WarnerMedia
The merger of Discovery, Inc. and WarnerMedia, announced in May 2021 and closed in April 2022, combined AT&T's WarnerMedia with Discovery to form Warner Bros. Discovery.
Merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc.
The merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc. is Nexstar's $6.2 billion all-cash acquisition of broadcaster Tegna, announced in August 2025 and completed in March 2026.
Merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global
The merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global, completed in August 2025, saw the Ellison family and RedBird Capital invest $8 billion to create Paramount, a Skydance Corporation.
Merger simulation
Merger simulation is an economic modeling method that predicts how a proposed merger would change prices, used by US and EU competition authorities since the early 1990s.
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions, known as M&A, is the field of corporate transactions in which one company buys another or two companies combine, shaped by valuation, deal law, and antitrust regulation.
Merging enzymatic and photoredox catalysis
Merging enzymatic and photoredox catalysis, often called photoenzymatic catalysis or photobiocatalysis, unites light-driven radical chemistry with enzyme selectivity, chiefly through flavin-dependent ene-reductases, enabling enantioselective dehalogenations and radical cyclizations.
Merging the poll tax into the land tax (tanding ru di)
Merging the poll tax into the land tax (摊丁入地, tanding ru di) was a Qing fiscal reform, extended nationwide under the Yongzheng Emperor from 1724.
Merging unit
A merging unit (MU) is a device in a digital substation that converts analog currents and voltages from instrument transformers into digitized IEC 61850 Sampled Values streams.
Mergus
Mergus, the true mergansers or saw-bills, is a genus of serrated-billed fish-eating diving ducks (Anatidae) with four living Northern Hemisphere species, a critically endangered Brazilian species, and two extinct New Zealand relatives.
Mergus serrator
Mergus serrator, the red-breasted merganser, is a holarctic sawbill diving duck described by Linnaeus in 1758; fish make up over 75% of its diet, and it is IUCN Least Concern.
Merhotepre Ini
Merhotepre Ini, also known as Ini I, was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt whose roughly two-year reign is dated to circa 1700-1698 BC.
Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi
Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi (मेरी आशिकी तुम से ही), an Ekta Kapoor Balaji Telefilms romantic drama on Colors TV from 2014, starring Shakti Arora and Radhika Madan, about a driver's son's one-sided love for a rich man's daughter, 446 episodes.
Meri Durga (मेरी दुर्गा)
Meri Durga (मेरी दुर्गा) is a 2017-2018 Star Plus Hindi drama about Yashpal Choudhary, an illiterate school peon in Haryana, and his daughter Durga, an aspiring runner. Produced by Paperback Films (Ravindra Gautam, Pradeep Kumar), it ran 383 episodes.