incorporation

From Middle English incorporacioun, from Old French incorporacion, from Late Latin incorporatio. By surface analysis, incorporate +‎ -ion.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪŋˌkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪŋˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪŋˌkoːpəˈɹæɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

incorporation (countable and uncountable, plural incorporations)

1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
   • 2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials‎^[1], volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 February 2025:

     One of the remarkable innovations in concrete technology is the development of self-healing cementitious materials through the incorporation of bacterial agents.

2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.

   After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.

   • 2024 March 13, Wilson Walker, “Community of Mountain House votes overwhelmingly to become 1st California city since 2011”, in CBS News‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 April 2025:

     Board Member Matt Disko is set to become Council Member Disko and says incorporation is primarily about greater control.

4. The act of creating a corporation.
5. A body incorporated; a corporation.
6. (linguistics) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

   Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.

7. (law) A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. ^Wp

Inherited from Old French incorporacion, from Latin incorporātiōnem. By surface analysis, incorporer +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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incorporation f (plural incorporations)

1. incorporation
2. (military) entry into the military; entry into service

• “incorporation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012