integration

Integration is part of the Academic Word List. It is important for students in college and university.

Noun

Singular integration

Plural integrations

1. (uncountable) Integration is the act of combining a number of things to work together.

   European economic integration was widely expected to bring enormous benefits.

   Integration of immigrants into American society has become much more difficult than in the past.

2. (mathematics and countable) An integration is the process of finding the integral of a function.

Related words and expressions

• enterprise application integration
• horizontal integration
• indefinite integration
• integration clause
• racial integration
• vertical integration
• forward integration
• backward integration