integration

  1. Noun.  The act or process of making whole or entire.
  2. Noun.  (context, society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities.
  3. Noun.  (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
  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.

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