Inclusion meaning

ĭn-klo͝o'zhən
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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The act of including or the state of being included.
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Something included.
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A solid, liquid, or gaseous foreign body enclosed in a mineral or rock.
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An including or being included.
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A logical operation that assumes the second statement of a pair is true if the first one is true.
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(countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material,
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A nonliving mass, such as a droplet of fat, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
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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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(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, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
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Something included.
  • A solid, liquid, or gaseous foreign substance encased in mineral or rock.
  • A separate body, as a grain of starch, within the protoplasm of a cell.
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Origin of inclusion

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

Sentence Examples

  • He approved of the inclusion of M.

  • The inclusion of Portuguese and French possessions would add about 350,000 to the Christian total.

  • This scheme must allow of the Council selecting at least a majority of the committee, and must provide for the inclusion of experts and women.

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

  • For that year the budget was already settled, and it was introduced by Mr Asquith himself, the ex-chancellor; but Mr Lloyd George earned golden opinions, both at the Treasury and in parliament, by his industry and his handling of the Finance Bill, especially important for its inclusion of Old Age Pensions, in the later stages.

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