Integration

Integration may refer to:

Sociology and economy

• Social integration, in social sciences, is the movement of refugees and underprivileged sections of a society into the mainstream of societies
• Racial integration, refers to social and cultural behavior
• Economic integration, refers to trade unification between different states
• Educational integration of students with disabilities
• Regional integration, a process in which states enter into a regional agreement in order to enhance regional cooperation through regional institutions and rules
• 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 production
• A step in the process of money laundering

Mathematics

• Integration, in mathematics, a fundamental concept of calculus—the operation of calculating the area between the curve of a function on the x-axis or y-axis
• Indefinite integration, in calculus, the process of calculating antiderivatives—the opposites of derivatives (a.k.a. "antidifferentiation")
• Symbolic integration, the computation, mostly on computers, of antiderivatives and integrals in term of formulas
• In numerical analysis and in signal processing, a time series can be "integrated" numerically by various step-by-step means, including autoregressive integrated moving average and the Runge-Kutta methods

Electronics engineering

• Integrated circuit, an electronic circuit whose components are manufactured in one flat piece of semiconductor material
• Systems integration, the engineering practices and procedures for assembling large and complicated systems from less-complicated units, especially subsystems

Genetics/Enzymology

• Pre-integration complex or retroviral integration, in biology
• DNA integration performed by a specific class of recombinase enzymes ("integrases"). Recognition of a target sequence triggers site-specific integration of ("crossover" with) a compatible "donor sequence"

Other uses

• Integration (festival), the annual techno-cultural fest of Indian Statistical Institute.
• Integration (fest), the annual mathematics fest of St. Stephen's College
• Integration (Kultur Shock album), 2009
• Integration (Kellee Maize album), 2011

See also

• Desegregation, the process of ending the separation of two groups, usually races
• Disintegration (disambiguation)
• Integral (disambiguation)
• Interdisciplinarity, involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g. a research project)
• Integrity, a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes