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^[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

match-merge (plural match-merges)

1. the process of match-merging

   The last match-merge produced the list we reported.