inclusion
/ɪnˈkluːʒən/ noun
Forms inclusions enclusion
- noun (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total. “The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.”
- noun (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.”
- noun (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- noun (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- noun (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- noun (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- noun (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- noun (obsolete) Restriction; limitation.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inclūsiō, inclūsiōnis, from the verb Latin inclūdō (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”). By surface analysis, include + -sion. Doublet of enclosure.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy. Sir W. Temple.
- noun A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral.
Etymology [L. inclusio: cf. F. inclusion. See Include.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “inclusion”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details