integration
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See also: Integration and intégration
English
Etymology
From French intégration, from Latin integratio.
Morphologically integrate + -ion
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.təˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.təˈɡɹæɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
integration (countable and uncountable, plural integrations)
- The act or process of making whole or entire.
- 2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature:
- One has, in fact, the old choice of regarding the higher integrations as queer offthrows of an infinitely improbable lower-order accident, or as the explanatory foundation of all that leads up to them.
- The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
- (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
- integration into the city
- (US) Ellipsis of racial integration.
- (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- 1878, Edmund Montgomery, “Monera, and the problem of life”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XIII, page 680:
- The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life.
- (biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- air integration
- auditory integration training
- constant of integration
- data integration
- integration by parts
- integrationist
- integration testing
- integration time
- large scale integration
- medium scale integration
- numerical integration
- reverse integration
- time delay and integration clock
- ultra large scale integration
- Verlet integration
- very large scale integration
- very-large-scale integration
- wafer-scale integration
Related terms
Translations
act or process of making whole or entire
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process of fitting into a community
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in mathematics
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in evolution
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Further reading
integration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “integration”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
integration c
- integration (making a whole of parts)
- integration (of immigrants)
- (mathematics) an integration
Declension
Declension of integration