integration

IPA: ɪntʌgrˈeɪʃʌn

The act or process of making whole or entire.
The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
(society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
(calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
(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.
(US) Ellipsis of racial integration.. [The process of countering racial segregation by assimilating people of different races into a unified society.]

Examples of "integration" in Sentences

And when we say we want integration, we mean _integration_. "[
SAM FULLWOOD, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER: We have seen among middle class blacks what I described as integration fatigue.
SAM FULWOOD, COLUMNIST, "CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER": We have seen among middle-class blacks what I describe as integration fatigue.
Jakarta uses the term integration when referring to the turn of events leading up to East Timor becoming Indonesia's 27th province in 1976.
DOBBS: The Bush administration is pushing and pushing hard a partnership between the United States and Mexico and Canada, with a goal of what it calls integration by 2010.
Follett proposes a fourth possible outcome, which she calls integration: the creation of something new, which transcends the mutual exclusion of the opposing sides and fully satisfies both.
Well I'm thinking of creating a different version of the interjections video and replacing it with the word integration and changing the chorus to something like, "Integration shows you get it, are not clueless, is generally done by very few companies, even though their customers say they want it."
I work for the American Enterprise Institute as a resident fellow, and I'm there because I felt that I have accomplished in the Dutch parliament what I set out to accomplish, and that was to create awareness for the suffering of Muslim women and for cultural factors affecting what we call integration in the Netherlands, and what is called assimilation in the United States.