incorporations

Noun

incorporation (countable and uncountable, plural incorporations)

1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
   • One of the remarkable innovations in concrete technology is the development of self-healing cementitious materials through the incorporation of bacterial agents.2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials, volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from...
2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.
   • After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.
4. The act of creating a corporation.
5. A body incorporated; a corporation.
6. A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
   • Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.

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