What does "integration" mean?
The act or process of making whole or entire.
Integration
/ˌɪn.təˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The act or process of making whole or entire.
- Grammar: integration is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: accommodation, adaptation, addition, adjustment.
- Useful contrasts: academic disunity, clinical cohorting, cultural isolation.
- Usage evidence: Discussion continued in the Foreign Ministry over social integration and the policy of accepting foreigners in Japan.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or process of making whole or entire. countable, uncountable
"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 an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined wordnet
- 3 The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them. countable, uncountable
- 4 the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community wordnet
- 5 The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities. countable, uncountable
"integration into the city"
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- 6 the act of combining into an integral whole wordnet
- 7 The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.; Ellipsis of racial integration. US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 8 The operation of finding the integral of a function. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 9 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. countable, uncountable
Antonyms
academic disunityclinical cohortingcultural isolationdepartmental silo
Example
"Discussion continued in the Foreign Ministry over social integration and the policy of accepting foreigners in Japan."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "integration"?
Common synonyms include: accommodation, adaptation, addition, adjustment, admixture, adopting.
How do you use "integration" in a sentence?
Discussion continued in the Foreign Ministry over social integration and the policy of accepting foreigners in Japan.
How do you pronounce "integration"?
Pronounced /ˌɪn.təˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/.
Etymology
From French intégration, from Latin integratio. Morphologically integrate + -ion.