noun

• The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
• The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
• The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.
• The act of creating a corporation.
• A body incorporated; a corporation.
• (linguistics) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
• (law) A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. ᵂᵖ