| incorporation | |
| 1. n. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated. | |
| 2. n. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis. | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
| 4. n. The act of creating a corporation. | |
| 5. n. A body incorporated; a corporation. | |
| 6. n. (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. | |
