integration

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or process of integrating.
2. n. The state of becoming integrated.
3. n. The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation.
4. n. Psychology The organization of the psychological or social traits and tendencies of a personality into a harmonious whole.
5. n. Mathematics The process of computing an integral; the inverse of differentiation.
6. n. Electronics The process of placing more than one integrated circuit on a single chip.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of integrating, or bringing together the parts of an integral whole; the act of segregating and bringing together similar particles.
2. n. In mathematics, the operation inverse to differentiation; the operation of finding the integral of a function or of an equation.
3. n. The inference of subcontrariety from “Some A is B” to “Some A is not B.”
4. n. The determination of the average rate of flow of a stream. On account of the varying friction against the bottom, sides, and overlying air, this value, as a rule, differs from the rate at any particular place in the cross-section of the stream.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act or process of making whole or entire.
2. n. (Math.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.
3. n. In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
2. n. the act of combining into an integral whole
3. n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community