Definition of integration
1 : the act or process or an instance of integrating: such asa : incorporation as equals into society or an organization of individuals of different groups (such as races)b : coordination of mental processes into a normal effective personality or with the environment
2a : the operation of finding a function whose differential is knownb : the operation of solving a differential equation
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Recent Examples of integration from the Web
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Flights, car rentals, and integration with the new Echo Show (which includes a screen that would add the vital visual component to the booking process) are all next-up on the docket.
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Two months before the integration policy went into effect, the Marines requested an exemption to keep armor and infantry jobs closed to women.
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Offering four-week classes this summer in CJE's Melton Program are Eckstein, CJE's technology integration educator, and Rabbi Debra Eisenman, who has been teaching Melton in the Greater Palm Beaches for about six years.
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This integration of old and new media may turn out to be a financial boon for the Web.
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The belief in this way of doing it is that integration of the numbers will be done with a football lens. * * * GREEN BAY PACKERS GM Ted Thompson is decidedly old school, but the Packers most certainly aren’t.
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China's domestic equities will join MSCI's benchmark indexes after three failed attempts, a landmark step in the nation’s integration with the global financial system.
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Such integration includes Costco working with farmers to help them buy land and equipment to grow organics, building its own poultry farm, owning and operating its own beef plant and hot dog factory, and having its own optical grinding factory.
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Potomac, Md., reader James Kelly took issue with last week’s column on the integration of the District’s swimming pools and The Post’s role in it.
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First Known Use of integration
1620
INTEGRATION Defined for Kids
integration
playDefinition of integration for Students
1 : the act or process of uniting different things
2 : the practice of uniting people from different races in an attempt to give people equal rights racial integration
Medical Dictionary
integration
playMedical Definition of integration
: the combining and coordinating of separate parts or elements into a unified whole: asa: coordination of mental processes into a normal effective personality or with the individual's environment failure of association and failure of integration take place among neurotic individuals—R. M. Dorcus & G. W. Shafferb: the process by which the different parts of an organism are made a functional and structural whole especially through the activity of the nervous system and of hormones
Law Dictionary
integration
Legal Definition of integration
: the act or process or an instance of integrating: as a : a writing that embodies a complete and final agreement between parties b : incorporation as equals into society or an organization of individuals of different groups (as races)
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