Integration

[in-ti-grey-shuhn]

Integration is a process of combining or accumulating. It may specifically refer to:

The bringing together of two or more economies, cultures, religions (usually called syncretism), etc.in sociology and economy
Social integration
Racial integration, refers to social and cultural behavior; in a legal sense, see desegregation
Political integration, the centralisation of power within a polity
Economic integration
Regional integration
Horizontal integration and vertical integration, in microeconomics and strategic management, refer to a style of ownership and control
Integration clause, in a contract, a term used to declare the contract the final and complete understanding of the parties
Integrated productionin mathematics
Integration, in mathematics, a concept of calculus, is the act of finding integrals
Indefinite integration, in mathematics, refers to antidifferentiation
A time series may be integrated, as in Autoregressive integrated moving averageIn computer science
System integration, the process by which smaller pieces of software are brought together to form a larger piece of software that was designed to solve a problem
Digital integration, in computer science, allows data from one device or software to be read or manipulated by another, resulting in ease of use; see also XML
Enterprise application integration, also known as systems integration, as the use of software and computer systems to bring together a set of enterprise computer applications
IP integration, involving the Internet Protocolin biology
retroviral integration

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