inclusion
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See also: inclusión
English
Alternative forms
- enclusion (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inclusio, inclusionis, from the verb Latin inclūdō (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclosure.
Pronunciation
Noun
inclusion (countable and uncountable, plural inclusions)
- (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.
- (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.
- (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material,
- (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- (obsolete) Restriction; limitation.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- bioinclusion
- e-inclusion
- inclusionary
- inclusion complex
- inclusion compound
- inclusion function
- inclusionism
- inclusionist
- inclusion map
- inclusion polymorphism
- inclusion rider
- inclusion unit
- microinclusion
- nanoinclusion
- noninclusion
- overinclusion
- postinclusion
- preinclusion
- pseudoinclusion
- reinclusion
- transclusion
- underinclusion
Related terms
Translations
addition or annex to a group, set or total
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act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set or total
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defect in precious stone
aggregate of stainable substances
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See also
Inclusion (mineral) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French inclusion, borrowed from Latin inclūsiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
inclusion f (countable and uncountable, plural inclusions)
Related terms
Further reading
- “inclusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Occitan
Etymology
Noun
inclusion f (plural inclusions)
Related terms
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 559.
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 338.