Meaning & use
integration
The process of combining separate parts into a unified whole, or of bringing groups together as equals.
See it in a sentence
The school's integration policy aims to bring students from every neighborhood together in one classroom.
Engineers worked for months on the integration of the new software with existing systems.
A note on using this word
Integration often refers to social equality between groups, but it is equally common in business and technology to describe merging systems.
Words with a similar meaning
combinationunification
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Words with an opposite meaning
segregationseparation
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