Other forms: integrations
Integration is the bringing together of separated groups as equals. Racial integration, social integration, integration policy.
The as equals is the point: integration means both groups changing, where assimilation means one becoming the other — and which word is used says a great deal about what is being proposed. In mathematics, integration is the operation finding areas under curves. In business, integration means combining systems. Note integrate; and that the Latin means making whole.
1nounintegrationThe bringing together of separated groups as equals.
“The school was a model of racial integration, with children of every background learning together.”
2nounmathematicalThe mathematical operation finding areas under curves.
“In our maths class, we moved on from differentiation to integration.”
integration is a bringing together.
Latin integratio comes from integrare, to make whole, from integer, untouched or entire. Integer, entire and integrity come from the same wholeness.
Latin
integratio
French
intégration
English, today
integration
From French intégration, from Latin integratio. Morphologically integrate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA