integration — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act or process of making whole or entire.

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

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

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   integration into the city

4. The operation of finding the integral of a function.

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   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.

5. 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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6. The development of a system that brings together several subsystems so that they communicate and work together.

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   Our AcmePay integration allows the accounting ledger to receive details of customer payments automatically.

Noun

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

   Synonyms

   integratingdesegregation

   Antonyms

   segregation

   Broader terms

   group action

2. the act of combining into an integral whole

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   consolidation

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   combinationcombiningcompounding

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   a consolidation of two corporations

   after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously

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   the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them

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

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   mathematical processmathematical operationoperation