integration

Noun

integration (countable and uncountable, plural integrations)

1. The act or process of making whole or entire.
   • One has, in fact, the old choice of regarding the higher integrations as queer offthrows of an infinitely improbable lower-order accident, or as the explanatory foundation of all that leads up to them.2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
2. The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
3. (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
   • integration into the city
4. The operation of finding the integral of a function.
   • The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to...1878, Edmund Montgomery, “Monera, and the problem of life”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XIII, page 680
5. 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.
6. The development of a system that brings together several subsystems so that they communicate and work together.
   • Our AcmePay integration allows the accounting ledger to receive details of customer payments automatically.