Integration

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

• The bringing together of two or more economies, cultures, religions (usually called syncretism), etc.
• Integration, in mathematics, a concept of calculus, is the act of finding integrals
• Indefinite integration, in mathematics, refers to antidifferentiation
• 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
• In computer science
  • 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

[edit] See also

• Disintegration
• Integral (disambiguation)