Integration Meaning
/ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act or process of making whole or entire.
nounThe process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
Sentence Examples
In Russian, nouns of foreign origin generally don't succumb to integration.
We cannot unwind integration any more than we can stuff technology back into a box.
The aim is to promote closer economic integration.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of new technology into the classroom has improved student learning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The successful ____ of the two companies required a lot of careful planning and communication.
Word Origin & History
From French intégration, from Latin integratio. Morphologically integrate + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"One has, in fact, the old choice of regarding the higher integrations as queer offthrows of an infinitely improbable lower-order accident, or as the explanatory foundation of all that leads up to them."
— 2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature:
"The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life."
— 1878, Edmund Montgomery, “Monera, and the problem of life”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XIII, page 680:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of new technology into the classroom has improved student learning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The successful ____ of the two companies required a lot of careful planning and communication.