integration
pronunciation
How to pronounce integration in British English:
UK [ˌɪntɪˈgreɪʃn]
How to pronounce integration in American English:
US [ˌɪntɪˈɡreʃən]
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- Noun:
- the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
- the act of combining into an integral whole
- an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
Word Origin
- integration (n.)
- 1610s, from French intégration and directly from Latin integrationem (nominative integratio) "renewal, restoration," noun of action from past participle stem of integrare (see integrate). Anti-discrimination sense is recorded from 1940 in a S.African context.
Example
- 1. The last examples show a different approach of integration .
- 2. But recent developments have made further integration more likely .
- 3. But the planned integration failed to work .
- 4. Is this sort of integration a realistic prospect ?
- 5. With germany reunified , the eu lost its main impetus for integration .