integration

Meaning

Noun

• The act or process of making whole or entire.
• The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
• The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
• The operation of finding the integral of a function.
• 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.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• backward integration
• continuous integration
• enterprise application integration
• forward integration
• horizontal integration
• indefinite integration
• integral calculus
• integration clause
• integrationist
• racial integration
• vertical integration

Origin

• From French intégration, from Latin integratio.
• Morphologically integrate + -ion