incorporation

Meaning

Noun

• The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
• The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
• The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation
• The act of creating a corporation.
• A body incorporated; a corporation.
• A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
• A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. ^Wp

Origin

• From Middle English incorporacioun, from Old French incorporacion, from Late Latin incorporatio.