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integration

Syllabification: (in·te·gra·tion)
Pronunciation: /ˌintiˈgrāSHən/
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Definition of integration

noun

  • 1the action or process of integrating:economic and political integration integration of individual countries into trading blocs
  • the intermixing of people or groups previously segregated:integration is the best hope for both black and white Americans
  • 2 Mathematics the finding of an integral or integrals:integration of an ordinary differential equation mathematical integrations
  • 3 Psychology the coordination of processes in the nervous system, including diverse sensory information and motor impulses:visuomotor integration
  • Psychoanalysis the process by which a well-balanced psyche becomes whole as the developing ego organizes the id, and the state that results or that treatment seeks to create or restore by countering the fragmenting effect of defense mechanisms.

Derivatives

integrationist

Pronunciation: /-nist/
noun

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