inclusion

See also: inclusión

English

Alternative forms

• enclusion (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inclusio, inclusionis, from the verb Latin inclūdō (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclosure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkluːʒən/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

inclusion (countable and uncountable, plural inclusions)

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

   The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.

2. (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.

3. (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material,
4. (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
   • 2009, Cindy Lasiter, Diamonds in the Rough, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page xi:

     The fewer inclusions a diamond has, the better is its clarity and value. Often the inclusions can be cut out of a diamond in the rough.

5. (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
6. (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
7. (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
8. (obsolete) Restriction; limitation.

Antonyms

• exclusion

Derived terms

• e-inclusion
• inclusion complex
• inclusion compound
• inclusion function
• inclusion map
• inclusion polymorphism
• inclusion rider

 

Related terms

• include

Translations

addition or annex to a group, set or total

• Bulgarian: включване n (vključvane)
• Catalan: inclusió f
• Dutch: toevoeging (nl) f
• Finnish: liite (fi), lisäys (fi)
• French: inclusion (fr) f
• Georgian: ჩართვა (čartva), ჩართულობა (čartuloba)
• German: Einschluss m
• Irish: cur san áireamh m, cur sa chomhaireamh m, comhaireamh m, áireamh m
• Italian: inclusione (it) f, aggiunta (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ការដាក់បញ្ចូល (kaa dak bɑɲcool)
• Korean: 포함 (ko) (poham)
• Macedonian: додаток m (dodatok)
• Norwegian: inkludering, inklusjon
• Persian: گنجایش‎ (fa), دربرداری‎ (fa), دخول‎ (fa), شمول‎ (fa), دربرگیری‎ (fa)
• Polish: inkluzja f
• Portuguese: inclusão (pt) f
• Russian: включе́ние (ru) n (vključénije)
• Swahili: jumuisho (sw)

act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set or total

• Bulgarian: включване n (vključvane), обхващане n (obhvaštane)
• Catalan: inclusió f
• Dutch: toevoeging (nl) f, inbegrip (nl) n
• Finnish: sisällyttäminen, mukaan ottaminen
• French: inclusion (fr) f
• Georgian: ჩართვა (čartva)
• German: Einschluss m
• Greek: προσθήκη (el) f (prosthíki)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: belefoglalás (hu)
• Italian: inclusione (it) f
• Khmer: ការដាក់បញ្ចូល (kaa dak bɑɲcool)
• Latin: inclusiō f
• Norwegian: inkludering, inklusjon
• Occitan: inclusion (oc) f
• Portuguese: inclusão (pt) f
• Russian: включе́ние (ru) n (vključénije)
• Spanish: inclusión (es) f
• Swahili: jumuisho (sw)

defect in precious stone

• Bulgarian: включение n (vključenie)
• Catalan: inclusió f
• Dutch: insluiting (nl) f
• Finnish: sulkeuma
• Hungarian: zárvány (hu)
• Italian: impurità (it) f
• Polish: inkluzja f, wrostek (pl) m
• Spanish: inclusión (es) f

aggregate of stainable substances

• French: inclusion (fr) f
• Hungarian: sejtzárvány
• Italian: inclusione (it) f
• Portuguese: inclusão (pt) f
• Spanish: inclusión (es) f

See also

• Inclusion (mineral) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• inclusion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French inclusion, borrowed from Latin inclūsiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kly.zjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

inclusion f (countable and uncountable, plural inclusions)

1. inclusion

Related terms

• inclure
• inclus
• inclusif

Further reading

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

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin inclūsiō.

Noun

inclusion f (plural inclusions)

1. inclusion

Related terms

• inclure

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 559.
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 338.