Lexic.us

Definition of Integration

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

2. Noun. The act of combining into an integral whole. "The defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them"

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

Definition of Integration

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

Definition of Integration

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

2. Noun. (context: society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities ¹

3. Noun. (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function. ¹

4. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Integration

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Integration

1. Incorporation of the genetic material of a virus in to the host genome. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Integration

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integrated rate expression integrated resource planning integrated services digital network integrates integrating integration (current term) integrationist integrationists integrations integrative

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Literary usage of Integration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"THE fundamental operation of the calculus, known as integration, ... It is in this form that the problem of integration naturally presents itself in ..."

2. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"For brevity, we call " j " the symbol of integration, but the integral must be ... (5) integration of the product of a polynomial and its differential. ..."

3. Strength of Materials by James Ellsworth Boyd (1917)
"DEFLECTION OF BEAMS WITH TWO SUPPORTS BY METHOD OF DOUBLE integration (Articles 74 to 83 may be omitted and Articles 84 to 93 taken instead.) 74. ..."

4. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Anthony Granville, Percey Franklyn Smith (1904)
"Determination of the constant of integration by means of initial conditions. ... 290, the constant of integration may be found in any given case when we ..."

5. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Anthony Granville (1904)
"Determination of the constant of integration by means of initial conditions. ... 290, the constant of integration may be found in any given case when we ..."

6. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews by OECD., Lorents G. (FRW) Lorentsen, OECD Staff (2004)
"Evidence of integration of environmental concerns can be seen at central government level in the activities of many ministries and sectoral planning ..."

7. Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems by W. Dale Compton (1988)
"A logical goal for data integration should be to achieve a single data name and a single data value definition for each of the four entities in the system. ..."

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