integration (redirected from industrial integration)

in·te·gra·tion  (nt-grshn)

n.

1.

a. The act or process of integrating.

b. The state of becoming integrated.

2. The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation.

3. Psychology The organization of the psychological or social traits and tendencies of a personality into a harmonious whole.

4. Mathematics The process of computing an integral; the inverse of differentiation.

5. Electronics The process of placing more than one integrated circuit on a single chip.

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integration  (nt-grshn)

In calculus, the process of calculating an integral. Integration is the inverse of differentiation, since integrating a given function results in a function whose derivative is the given function. Integration is used in the calculation of such things as the areas and volumes of irregular shapes and solids. Compare differentiation.

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1. In force protection, the synchronized transfer of units into an operational commander's force prior to mission execution.
2. The arrangement of military forces and their actions to create a force that operates by engaging as a whole.
3. In photography, a process by which the average radar picture seen on several scans of the time base may be obtained on a print, or the process by which several photographic images are combined into a single image. See also force protection.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	integration - the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community desegregation, integrating group action - action taken by a group of people sequestration, segregation - the act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury"
	2.	integration - the act of combining into an integral whole; "a consolidation of two corporations"; "after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously"; "the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them" consolidation compounding, combining, combination - the act of combining things to form a new whole 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
	3.	integration - an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation - (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"

Translations

integration [ɪntɪˈgreɪʃən] n → integración f;

racial integration → integración de razas

integration [ɪntɪˈgreɪʃən] n → intégration f;

racial integration → intégration raciale

integration [ɪntɪˈgreɪʃən] integrate n → Integration f;

racial integration integrate → Rassenintegration f

integration [ɪntɪˈgreɪʃən] n → integrazione f;

racial integration → integrazione razziale