Integration

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Origin

From French intégration, from Latin integratio

Full definition of integration

Noun

1. The act or process of making whole or entire.
2. (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
3. (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
4. (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.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• integer
• integrable
• integral
• integrand
• integrator

Anagrams

• orientating