match-merge

English

Verb

match-merge (third-person singular simple present match-merges, present participle match-merging, simple past and past participle match-merged)

  1. (programming) To merge sets of objects while excluding duplicates.
    • 2012, Michele M. Burlew, SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy‎:
      "When you want to match-merge several data sets and the data sets do not all match by the same variables […] "
    The lists are match-merged, so if you are on both lists, you are not twice as likely to be chosen.

Noun

match-merge (plural match-merges)

  1. the process of match-merging
    The last match-merge produced the list we reported.
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