Dictionary Definition
integration
Noun
1 the action of incorporating a racial or
religious group into a community [syn: integrating, desegregation] [ant:
segregation]
2 the act of combining into an integral whole; "a
consolidation of two corporations"; "after their consolidation the
two bills were passed unanimously"; "the defendants asked for a
consolidation of the actions against them" [syn: consolidation]
3 an operation used in the calculus whereby the
integral of a function is determined
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act or process of making whole or entire.
- The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- 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 development.
Derived terms
Translations
act or process of making whole or entire
- Croatian: integracija
- Dutch: integratie
- Finnish: integraatio, yhdentyminen
- French: intégration
- Japanese: 統合, 融合
- Russian: интеграция
- Spanish: integración
in analysis
- Dutch: integratie
- Finnish: integrointi
- French: intégration
- German: Integration
- Italian: integrazione
- Japanese: 積分
- Portuguese: integração
- Russian: интеграция
- Swedish: integration, integrering
in evolution
- ttbc Bulgarian: интеграция
- ttbc Romanian: integrare
- ttbc Dutch: integratie
Swedish
Noun
integrationDerived terms
Extensive Definition
Integration is a process of combining or
accumulating. It may specifically refer to:
- The bringing together of two or more economies, cultures, religions (usually called syncretism), etc.*Social integration
- Racial integration, refers to social and cultural behavior; in a legal sense, see desegregation
- Political integration, the centralisation of power within a polity
- Economic integration
- Regional integration
- Horizontal integration and vertical integration, in microeconomics and strategic management, refer to a style of ownership and control
- Integration clause, in a contract, a term used to declare the contract the final and complete understanding of the parties
- Integrated production*Integration, in mathematics, a concept of calculus, is the act of finding integrals
- Indefinite integration, in mathematics, refers to antidifferentiation*System integration, the process by which smaller pieces of software are brought together to form a larger piece of software that was designed to solve a problem
- Digital integration, in computer science, allows data from one device or software to be read or manipulated by another, resulting in ease of use; see also XML
- Enterprise application integration, also known as systems integration, as the use of software and computer systems to bring together a set of enterprise computer applications
- IP integration, involving the Internet Protocol*retroviral integration
See also
integration in Danish: Integration
integration in German: Integration
integration in French: Intégration
integration in Korean: 통합
integration in Italian: Integrazione
integration in Hebrew: אינטגרציה
integration in Lithuanian: Integravimas
integration in Dutch: Integratie
integration in Japanese: インテグレーション
integration in Polish: Integracja
integration in Russian: Интеграция
integration in Simple English: Integration
integration in Finnish: Integraatio
integration in Swedish: Integration
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anschluss, accommodation, adaptation, addition, adjustment, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloyage, amalgamation, approximation, assimilation, association, attunement, balancing, blend, blending, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, coaptation, colleagueship, collectivity, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling, commixture, complex, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, coordination, copartnership, copartnery, differentiation,
division, eclecticism, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, entirety, equalization, equalizing, equating, equation, equilibration, evening, evening up, evolution, extrapolation, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, harmonization, hookup, identity, immixture, inclusion, incorporation, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integer, integrality, integrity, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement,
intermingling,
intermixture,
interpolation,
inversion, inviolability, involution, irreducibility, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, multiplication, notation, oneness, organic unity, package, package deal, particularity, partnership, pluralism, practice, proportion, purity, reconcilement, reconciliation, reduction, regularization, regulation, selfsameness, simplicity, singleness, singularity, sodality, solidarity, solidification, solidity, sorority, squaring, subtraction, symmetrization, synchronization,
syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up,
timing, totality, transformation, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unity, univocity, wedding, whole, wholeness