integration

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From French intégration, from Latin integratio. Morphologically integrate + -ion.

"Forced integration was govern- ment's answer to a problem it has never understood. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
I agree that the laws of thought are only the integration of relations between facts. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri
[24] In the particular case where we admit without restriction Weber's Law ΔE/E=const., integration gives S=C log. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson

integrating, desegregation

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