integration

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)

  2. 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.
  3. The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
  4. (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
    integration into the city
    1. (US) Ellipsis of racial integration.
  5. (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
    • 1878, Edmund Montgomery, “Monera, and the problem of life”, in The Popular Science Monthly‎[1], 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.
  6. (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.

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Swedish

Etymology

integrera +‎ -tion

Noun

integration c

  1. integration (making a whole of parts)
  2. integration (of immigrants)
  3. (mathematics) an integration

Declension

Declension of integration
nominative genitive
singular indefinite integration integrations
definite integrationen integrationens
plural indefinite integrationer integrationers
definite integrationerna integrationernas

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