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noun
[mass noun] 1the action or process of integrating:economic and political integration integration of individual countries into trading blocs the intermixing of people who were 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 [count noun]: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 which results or which treatment seeks to create by countering the fragmenting effect of defence mechanisms.