integration

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or process of integrating.
• noun The state of becoming integrated.
• noun The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation.
• noun Psychology The organization of the psychological or social traits and tendencies of a personality into a harmonious whole.
• noun Mathematics The process of computing an integral; the inverse of differentiation.
• noun Electronics The process of placing more than one integrated circuit on a single chip.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The determination of the average rate of flow of a stream. On account of the varying friction against the bottom, sides, and overlying air, this value, as a rule, differs from the rate at any particular place in the cross-section of the stream.
• noun The act of integrating, or bringing together the parts of an integral whole; the act of segregating and bringing together similar particles.
• noun In mathematics, the operation inverse to differentiation; the operation of finding the integral of a function or of an equation.
• noun The inference of subcontrariety from “Some A is B” to “Some A is not B.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act or process of making whole or entire.
• noun (Math.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.
• noun In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act or process of making whole or entire.
• noun society The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
• noun calculus The operation of finding the integral of a function.
• noun biology 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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