Integration may refer to:

Biology

Multisensory integration Multisensory integration, also known as multimodal integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modality, sensory modalities (such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion, and taste) may be integrated by the nervous sy ...

* Path integration * Pre-integration complex, viral genetic material used to insert a viral genome into a host genome *DNA integration, by means of site-specific recombinase technology, performed by a specific class of recombinase enzymes ("integrases")

Economics and law

Economic integration Economic integration is the unification of economic policies between different states, through the partial or full abolition of tariff and Non-tariff barriers to trade, non-tariff restrictions on trade. The trade-stimulation effects intended by ...

, trade unification between different states * Horizontal integration and

vertical integration In microeconomics, management and international political economy, vertical integration, also referred to as vertical consolidation, is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is integrated and owned by that company. Usually each ...

, in microeconomics and strategic management, styles of ownership and control * Regional integration, in which states cooperate through regional institutions and rules * Integration clause, a declaration that a contract is the final and complete understanding of the parties *A step in the process of

money laundering Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money obtained from illicit activities (often known as dirty money) such as drug trafficking, sex work, terrorism, corruption, and embezzlement, and converting the funds i ...

* Integrated farming, a farm management system * Integration (tax), a feature of corporate and personal income tax in some countries * Territorial integration of

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ...

dependent territories A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the control ...

into a state

Engineering

Data integration Data integration refers to the process of combining, sharing, or synchronizing data from multiple sources to provide users with a unified view. There are a wide range of possible applications for data integration, from commercial (such as when a ...

* Digital integration *

Enterprise integration Enterprise integration is a technical field of enterprise architecture, which is focused on the study of topics such as system interconnection, electronic data interchange, product data exchange and distributed computing environments. It is a con ...

*Integrated architecture, in an Enterprise architecture framework approach such as DoDAF *

Integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

, an electronic circuit whose components are manufactured in one flat piece of semiconductor material * Integrated design, an approach to design which brings together specialisms usually considered separately * Integrated product team, use of a team including multiple disciplines (e.g. customer, engineer, support, testing) *

Integrated software Integrated software is a software for personal computers that combines the most commonly used functions of many productivity software programs into one application. The integrated software genre has been largely overshadowed by fully functional o ...

System integration System integration is defined in engineering as the process of bringing together the component sub-systems into one system (an aggregation of subsystems cooperating so that the system is able to deliver the overarching functionality) and ensuring ...

, engineering practices for assembling large and complicated systems from units, particularly subsystems

Mathematics

* Integration, the computation of an

integral In mathematics, an integral is the continuous analog of a Summation, sum, which is used to calculate area, areas, volume, volumes, and their generalizations. Integration, the process of computing an integral, is one of the two fundamental oper ...

** Indefinite integration, the computation of

antiderivative In calculus, an antiderivative, inverse derivative, primitive function, primitive integral or indefinite integral of a continuous function is a differentiable function whose derivative is equal to the original function . This can be stated ...

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Numerical integration In analysis, numerical integration comprises a broad family of algorithms for calculating the numerical value of a definite integral. The term numerical quadrature (often abbreviated to quadrature) is more or less a synonym for "numerical integr ...

, computing an integral with a numerical method, usually with a computer **

Integration by parts In calculus, and more generally in mathematical analysis, integration by parts or partial integration is a process that finds the integral of a product of functions in terms of the integral of the product of their derivative and antiderivati ...

, a method for computing the integral of a product of functions **

Integration by substitution In calculus, integration by substitution, also known as ''u''-substitution, reverse chain rule or change of variables, is a method for evaluating integrals and antiderivatives. It is the counterpart to the chain rule for differentiation, and c ...

, a method for computing integrals, by using a change of variable **

Symbolic integration In calculus, symbolic integration is the problem of finding a formula for the antiderivative, or ''indefinite integral'', of a given function ''f''(''x''), i.e. to find a formula for a differentiable function ''F''(''x'') such that :\frac = f(x ...

, the computation, mostly on computers, of antiderivatives and definite integrals in term of formulas * Integration, the computation of a solution of a differential equation or a system of differential equations: **

Integrability conditions for differential systems In mathematics, certain systems of partial differential equations are usefully formulated, from the point of view of their underlying geometric and algebraic structure, in terms of a system of differential forms. The idea is to take advantage of th ...

** Integrable system * Order of integration, in statistics, a summary statistic for a time series

Sociology

Social integration Social integration is the process during which newcomers or minorities are incorporated into the social structure of the host society. Social integration, together with economic integration and identity integration, are three main dimensions o ...

, in social science, a movement of newcomers or marginalized minorities into the mainstream of a society *

Racial integration Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation), leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of Race (classification of human beings), race, and t ...

, including desegregation and other changes in social opportunity and culture ** Desegregation, ending a separation of races, particularly in the context of the American civil rights movement * Educational integration of students with disabilities * Integration of immigrants

Other uses