integration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act or process of making whole or entire.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.

   integration into the city

3. 3
   noun

   The operation of finding the integral of a function.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined

5. 5
   noun

   the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

6. 6
   noun

   the act of combining into an integral whole

7. 7
   noun

   The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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