INCORPORATION Synonyms

• the combination of two or more commercial companies

• the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

• the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

• the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

• a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

• the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

• in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• combining into a solid mass

• the act of combining into an integral whole

• something that has consolidated into a compact mass

• an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• the state of being combined into one body

• the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

• a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

• the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept

• correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization

• the act of fusing (or melting) together

• the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

• the act of combining into an integral whole

• an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined

• become one

• mix together different elements

• join or combine

• the combination of two or more commercial companies

• an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank

• announce for a score; of cards in a card game

• lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually

• mix together different elements

• learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself

• learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself