Associations to the word «Integration»

Wiktionary

INTEGRATION, noun. The act or process of making whole or entire.
INTEGRATION, noun. (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
INTEGRATION, noun. (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
INTEGRATION, noun. (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.
INTEGRATION, noun. The combination with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
INTEGRATION BY PARTS, noun. (analysis) A method of integration directly related to the rule for differentiation of products; can be written as \(\int u\ dv = uv - \int v\ du\).

Dictionary definition

INTEGRATION, noun. The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.
INTEGRATION, noun. 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".
INTEGRATION, noun. An operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats