integration

noun7

1. •
   The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
2. •
   The development of a system that brings together several subsystems so that they communicate and work together.

   • Our AcmePay integration allows the accounting ledger to receive details of customer payments automatically.
3. •
   The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
4. •
   (US) Ellipsis of racial integration.
5. •
   The operation of finding the integral of a function.
6. •
   The act or process of making whole or entire.
7. •
   In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.