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Inclusion definition

ĭn-klo͝ozhən
The act of including or the state of being included.
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Something included.
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An including or being included.
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Inclusion is defined as the state of being included or being made a part of something.

When a book covers many different ideas and subjects, it is an example of the inclusion of many ideas.

When multiple people are all invited to be part of a group, this is an example of the inclusion of many different people.

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(countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.

The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.

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A nonliving mass, such as a droplet of fat, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
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(computers) A logical operation that assumes the second statement of a pair is true if the first one is true.
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(uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.

The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.

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(countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material,
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(countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
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A solid, liquid, or gaseous foreign body enclosed in a mineral or rock.
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Something included.
  • A solid, liquid, or gaseous foreign substance encased in mineral or rock.
  • (biol.) A separate body, as a grain of starch, within the protoplasm of a cell.
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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of inclusion - enclusion

Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
inclusion
Plural:
inclusions

Origin of inclusion

  • Latin inclūsiō inclūsiōn- from inclūsus past participle of inclūdere to enclose include

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French inclusion, from Old French inclusion, from Latin inclusio

    From Wiktionary

Inclusion Sentence Examples

  • The inclusion of other books in the Canon was gradual, and was effected only after centuries of debate.

  • It is the first of the five books (the Pentateuch), or, with the inclusion of Joshua, of the six (the Hexateuch), which cover the history of the Hebrews to their occupation of Canaan.

  • At a later period the ritual was further developed by the inclusion of the additional ceremonial contained in (3).

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