Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of integrating.
  • noun The state of becoming integrated.
  • noun The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation.
  • noun Psychology The organization of the psychological or social traits and tendencies of a personality into a harmonious whole.
  • noun Mathematics The process of computing an integral; the inverse of differentiation.
  • noun Electronics The process of placing more than one integrated circuit on a single chip.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The determination of the average rate of flow of a stream. On account of the varying friction against the bottom, sides, and overlying air, this value, as a rule, differs from the rate at any particular place in the cross-section of the stream.
  • noun The act of integrating, or bringing together the parts of an integral whole; the act of segregating and bringing together similar particles.
  • noun In mathematics, the operation inverse to differentiation; the operation of finding the integral of a function or of an equation.
  • noun The inference of subcontrariety from “Some A is B” to “Some A is not B.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of making whole or entire.
  • noun (Math.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.
  • noun In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act or process of making whole or entire.
  • noun society The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
  • noun calculus The operation of finding the integral of a function.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
  • noun the act of combining into an integral whole
  • noun the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From to integrate (from Latin integratus, the past participle of integrare 'to make a whole', from integer 'whole') + -ation

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Examples

  • And when we say we want integration, we mean _integration_. "[

    Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor

  • Jakarta uses the term integration when referring to the turn of events leading up to East Timor becoming Indonesia's 27th province in 1976.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Well I'm thinking of creating a different version of the interjections video and replacing it with the word integration and changing the chorus to something like, "Integration shows you get it, are not clueless, is generally done by very few companies, even though their customers say they want it."

    Forbes.com: News Steve Olenski 2011

  • Follett proposes a fourth possible outcome, which she calls integration: the creation of something new, which transcends the mutual exclusion of the opposing sides and fully satisfies both.

    Robert Koehler: Restraining the Profit Itch 2010

  • Follett proposes a fourth possible outcome, which she calls integration: the creation of something new, which transcends the mutual exclusion of the opposing sides and fully satisfies both.

    Robert Koehler: Restraining the Profit Itch 2010

  • I work for the American Enterprise Institute as a resident fellow, and I'm there because I felt that I have accomplished in the Dutch parliament what I set out to accomplish, and that was to create awareness for the suffering of Muslim women and for cultural factors affecting what we call integration in the Netherlands, and what is called assimilation in the United States.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007 2007

  • DOBBS: The Bush administration is pushing and pushing hard a partnership between the United States and Mexico and Canada, with a goal of what it calls integration by 2010.

    CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007 2007

  • SAM FULWOOD, COLUMNIST, "CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER": We have seen among middle-class blacks what I describe as integration fatigue.

    CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2005 2005

  • SAM FULLWOOD, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER: We have seen among middle class blacks what I described as integration fatigue.

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2004 2004

  • SAM FULWOOD, COLUMNIST, "CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER": We have seen among middle-class blacks what I describe as integration fatigue.

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2004 2004

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