Merit Explained

Merit may refer to:

Religion

• Merit (Buddhism)
  • Merit (Christianity) Punya (Hinduism)
• Imputed righteousness in Lutheranism and Calvinism

Companies and brands

• Merit (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes made by Altria
• Merit Energy Company, an international energy company
• Merit Motion Pictures, a production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Merit Network
• Merit (TV channel), a UK television channel owned by Sky Group
• 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 in 2000.

Music

• Merit (indie rock band), a band from Syracuse, New York

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

• Figure of merit
• Merit (law)
• Merit, Texas, an unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States
• Merit of the prime gap g_n, the ratio of g_n / log(p_n)
• MERIT (medical) Medical Emergency Response Incident Team

People with the name

• Merit Janow, American professor
• Merit or Meryt, an ancient Egyptian feminine name, from the Egyptian language meaning "beloved":
  • Merit, an ancient Egyptian woman of the middle Eighteenth Dynasty, wife of the royal scribe and architect Kha; joint owner with her husband of the intact tomb TT8
  • Merit (wife of Maya), an ancient Egyptian woman of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, wife of the royal treasurer Maya

See also

• Demerit (disambiguation)
• Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America)
• Merit good, a commodity which is judged that an individual or society should have on the basis of need
• Merit pay
• Meritocracy
• Meritt (disambiguation)
• Merrit (disambiguation)
• Merritt (disambiguation)