Integration: Encyclopedia - Integration

Integration

Integration may be any of the following:

• In the most general sense, integration may be any bringing together of things: the integration of two or more economies, cultures, religions (usually called syncretism), etc.
• In mathematics, integration, which is a concept of calculus, is the process of finding integrals.
• In mathematics, indefinite integration refers to antidifferentiation.
• Racial integration can mean desegregation, but more properly refers to social and cultural behavior rather than legalities.
• In microeconomics and strategic management, horizontal integration and vertical integration each refer to a style of ownership and control.
• Enterprise application integration.
• An integration clause in a contract is used to declare the contract the final and complete understanding of the parties.
• A type of international organization, that is not merely for intergovernmental cooperation. See European Union.

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