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Integration   /ˌɪntəgrˈeɪʃən/  /ˌɪnəgrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Integration

noun
1.
The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.  Synonyms: desegregation, integrating.
2.
The act of combining into an integral whole.  Synonym: consolidation.  "After their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously" , "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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"Integration" Quotes from Famous Books



... the country, but none the less, by a yet subtler process, a sun-picture had been recorded somewhere on his cerebral tissues. In the flash of an instant it had been done. A wave message of light and color, a molecular agitation and integration, a certain minute though definite corrugation in a brain recess,—and there it was, a picture complete! The blazing sunlight on the beetling black; a slender gray form, radiant, starting forward to the vision from the marge where light and darkness ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London

... against that I, as the last survivor, seem to be their only and yet their helpless protector. Yet we can now see, as they mostly did not, that their divergence was really a "differentiation process," leading each to a higher integration of truth. ...
— Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" • Various

... of the last war had been hectic, what with new organizational directives, the few sporadic revolts, the integration of homecoming fighters, and the final, tight set-up. But it had all been worth it. Everything was ...
— Final Weapon • Everett B. Cole

... growth is common to social aggregates and organic aggregates, we do not thus entirely exclude community with inorganic aggregates. Some of these, as crystals, grow in a visible manner; and all of them on the hypothesis of evolution, have arisen by integration at some time or other. Nevertheless, compared with things we call inanimate, living bodies and societies so conspicuously exhibit augmentation of mass, that we may fairly regard this as characterizing them both. ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... Spencer is that he never recognized that "homogeneity," "integration," and "definiteness" are all words for the same state, or the state that we call "positiveness." What we call his mistake is in that he regarded ...
— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort

... bear out the claim. The Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire bellied out further than those national unifications in the Nineteenth Century from which believers in a World State argue by analogy. Nevertheless, it is probably true that the real integration has increased regardless of the temporary inflation ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann



Words linked to "Integration" :   operation, merger, desegregation, compounding, incorporation, combining, group action, mathematical process, vertical combination, integrate, uniting, horizontal integration, centralisation, segregation, centralization, amalgamation, mathematical operation, combination, horizontal combination



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