Merit may refer to:

Religion

Merit (Buddhism) Merit (; ) is a concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics. It is a beneficial and protective force which accumulates as a result of good deeds, acts, or thoughts. Merit-making is important to Buddhist practice: merit brings good and agr ...

Merit (Christianity) In Christian theology, merit (Latin: ''meritum'') accrues when a believer's good work incurs "a future reward from a graceful God". The role of human merit in Christian life has been a point of dispute between Catholics and Protestants. Both Ca ...

Companies and brands

* Merit (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes * Merit Energy Company, an international energy company * Merit Motion Pictures, an independent documentary film and television production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada *

Merit Network Merit Network, Inc., is a nonprofit member-governed organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and Non-profit organization, nonprofit organizations, primarily in Michig ...

, a nonprofit organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organizations, primarily in Michigan, United States * Merit Packaging Limited, a subsidiary of the Lakson Group * Merit (TV channel), a short-lived UK television channel * Merit, a trading name used by J & L Randall * A chain of gas stations owned by Meadville Corporation before it was purchased by Hess Corporation

People

* Merit Cudkowicz, American neurologist and neuroscientist * Merit Hertzman-Ericson (1911–1998), Swedish psychologist and author * Merit Janow, American professor * Merit or Meryt, an

ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...

ian feminine name, from the

Egyptian language The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (; ), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world ...

meaning "beloved": ** Merit, wife of the ancient Egyptian royal scribe and architect Kha; interred with her husband in the

tomb of Kha and Merit The tomb of Kha and Merit, also known by its list of Theban tombs, tomb number Theban Tomb 8 or TT8, is the funerary chapel and burial place of the ancient Egyptian foreman Kha and his wife Merit, in the northern cemetery of the workmen's vill ...

** Merit, wife of the ancient Egyptian royal treasurer

Maya Maya may refer to: Ethnic groups * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Mayan languages, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (East Africa), a p ...

Schools

* Merit School of Music, a music education organization in Chicago, Illinois, United States * Merit Academy, a high school in Springville, Utah, United States

Other uses

* Merit, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community * , a World War II coastal minesweeper * Merit (indie rock band), an American band * Merit, in mathematics a ratio associated with the

prime gap A prime gap is the difference between two successive prime numbers. The ''n''-th prime gap, denoted ''g'n'' or ''g''(''p'n'') is the difference between the (''n'' + 1)-st and the ''n''-th prime numbers, i.e., :g_n = p_ - p_n. ...

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