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integrating

integrating

4.4
Bringing people from different races or religions into the same community
  • noun
  • /ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪŋ/
translation icon : integración
  • The community program focuses on the integrating of diverse groups to promote understanding and cooperation.
  • integrating structures

And therefore you'll be able to be a nice catalyst for integrating itself into these social conventions of ours.

Examples

  • A state agency devoted to supporting learning through technology, eTech Ohio (www.etech.ohio.gov) develops programs and uses best practices to serve learning organizations in acquiring, integrating, and sustaining educational technology.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Despite this change, business classes continue to be organized along functional lines and do not provide an overall, integrating framework (Walker and Ainsworth 2001).

    Academic text (2004)

  • Therefore, we can move to the next stage, the actual integrating process.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The integrating or bringing together of parts into a whole is taking place as best it can in all living and learning.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The process of integrating differences is a skill that we have not been taught very well.

  • I believe that theology, because it deals with God as the ground of everything, is the great integrating discipline.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Guidelines for Integrating Service Learning into Teacher Education Course Syllabi

    Academic text (2000)

  • Supporting and advocating for stable integrating structures in our societies.

    Academic text (2015)

  • PONG Cycles: A Framework for Integrating Science and Literacy

    Academic text (2013)

  • If we are to be ready to meet the challenge of universal art education for all the young people of our secondary schools, we shall have to devote a fair measure of our time, attention, and talent to the general integrating phases of music teaching.

    Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

inclusion
vsintegrating
65 3.7

Being part of a group, activity, or process

applies specifically to bringing different racial or religious groups into society
integration
vsintegrating
55 4.1

To bring people from different races or religions into a community as equals

focuses on joining groups without necessarily stressing equal status
desegregation
vsintegrating
20 6.1

Ending separation between racial or religious groups so they can mix freely

focuses on joining groups into community life rather than only ending separation
assimilation
vsintegrating
19 5.7

People adopting the customs and way of life of a larger group

stresses mutual joining rather than losing original cultural identity
absorption
vsintegrating
  • Specialized
3 6.1

A smaller cultural group becomes part of a larger group's customs

emphasizes mutual incorporation rather than one-sided merging
mainstreaming
vsintegrating
1 4.4

The practice of including people with disabilities in regular groups or activities

is used for group joining broadly, not mainly for special education contexts

Antonyms

to exclude
338 3.0

To keep someone or something out so they are not part of something

How Integrated

to assimilate
77 6.1
integrating
4.4
to incorporate
182 4.5

Surface Forms

integrating singular
integratings plural

Morphology

integrating = integrate (transparent) = integrate + ing

A regular gerund/nominalisation formed from the verb 'integrate' with '-ing', meaning 'the process of integrating'.

Etymology

The word integrating comes from the Latin word integer meaning 'whole'. So, to integrate people is to bring different parts together to make one whole community.