match-merge
English
editVerb
editmatch-merge (third-person singular simple present match-merges, present participle match-merging, simple past and past participle match-merged)
- (programming) To merge sets of objects while excluding duplicates.
- 2012, Michele M. Burlew, SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy[1]:
- "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
editmatch-merge (plural match-merges)
- the process of match-merging
- The last match-merge produced the list we reported.