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INTEGRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does integration mean? 

INTEGRATION (noun)
  The noun INTEGRATION has 3 senses:

1. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a communityplay

2. the act of combining into an integral wholeplay

3. an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determinedplay

  Familiarity information: INTEGRATION used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


INTEGRATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

desegregation; integrating; integration

Hypernyms ("integration" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Antonym:

segregation (the act of segregating or sequestering)

Derivation:

integrate (open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of combining into an integral whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

consolidation; integration

Context example:

the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them

Hypernyms ("integration" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "integration"):

centralisation; centralization (the act of consolidating power under a central control)

incorporation (consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body)

amalgamation; merger; uniting (the combination of two or more commercial companies)

vertical combination; vertical integration (absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution)

horizontal combination; horizontal integration (absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level)

Derivation:

integrate (make into a whole or make part of a whole)

integrate (become one; become integrated)


Sense 3

Meaning:

An operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("integration" is a kind of...):

mathematical operation; mathematical process; operation ((mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods)

Derivation:

integrate (calculate the integral of; calculate by integration)


 Context examples 


Progression from low- to high-grade neoplasia is often associated with the integration of the HPV16 genome into the host chromosome.

(Human Papillomavirus-16, NCI Thesaurus)

Integrase is an enzyme that catalyzes the integration of viral DNA into the host genome.

(Integrase, NCI Thesaurus)

A person that is responsible for the integration and interaction of work or events from an assembly of different people with diverse interests and operations.

(Group Coordinator, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein may play a role as a positive regulator of the Wingless type MMTV integration site signaling pathway.

(Frizzled 4, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, integration of this data with earlier AMD studies identified three additional target AMD genes, which had never before been shown to play a role in AMD.

(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Friend leukemia integration 1 transcription factor (452 aa, ~51 kDa) is encoded by the human FLI1 gene.

(Friend Leukemia Integration 1 Transcription Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Location of the integration of the engineered gene e.g. random or targeted.

(Integration Type, NCI Thesaurus)

MAP kinase gene products act as an integration point for multiple biochemical signals, and are involved in a wide variety of cellular processes such as proliferation, differentiation, transcription regulation and development.

(MAP Kinase Gene, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

The integrated plasma concentration Cp of a tracer divided by the value of this concentration at the end of the integration time.

(Normalized Time, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein may participate in the regulation of visual phototransduction or in the integration of photoreceptor metabolism.

(Phosducin, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)



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