Integration

/ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The act or process of making whole or entire..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act or process of making whole or entire.
2. The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
3. (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
4. (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

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.

integration into the city

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.

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