Merger vs Intersection - What's the difference?
merger | intersection |
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
(economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
(legal) An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
(linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
(geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
(set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
(sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.[http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html]
As nouns the difference between merger and intersection
is that merger is the act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit while intersection is the junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.merger
English
(wikipedia merger)Noun
(en noun)- ''Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
- the cot-caught merger