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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Focusing the debate around social cohesion and integration doesn't help counter-terrorism.
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Vouchers, after all, came into being in the South as a reaction to the integration of schools in the 1950s.
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Generation Integration has a website that connects high school students seeking volunteer opportunities with senior living homes.
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The story takes visitors through the Civil War, the post-World War II population boom, urban renewal, school integration battles and then provides a place for people to express themselves about the future.
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So liberals in Congress fought against the integration amendment led by civil rights opponents [resulting in a] 1949 housing program that permitted segregation.
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Integration was mostly on paper, with the nonmagnet students getting little benefit.
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Anker SoundSync Drive Bluetooth integration from your smartphone to your car stereo is a wonderful thing, but what if your car didn’t come with Bluetooth?
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Louisa’s mixed-race beauty turns her body into a living symbol of hope and integration in a country that is otherwise falling apart.
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INTEGRATION Defined for Kids
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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
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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
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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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