incorporation

noun7

1. •
   The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.

   • One of the remarkable innovations in concrete technology is the development of self-healing cementitious materials through the incorporation of bacterial agents. — 2024
2. •
   The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
3. •
   The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.

   • After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.
4. •
   The act of creating a corporation.
5. •
   A body incorporated; a corporation.
6. •
   A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states.
7. •
   A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

   • Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.