incorporation
incorporation Lexical Profile
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• noun
The act or process of including, combining, or integrating something as a part of a whole.
"The architect's design was praised for its seamless incorporation of solar panels into the historic roofline."
The legal process of forming a new corporation or registering a business, municipality, or organization as a recognized corporate entity.
"After filing the articles of incorporation with the state, the founders opened their first corporate bank account."
American The constitutional doctrine by which selected provisions of the United States Bill of Rights are made applicable to individual states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
"The Supreme Court's landmark ruling relied on the doctrine of selective incorporation to protect freedom of speech at the state level."
A grammatical phenomenon in which a compounding element, typically a noun object, is integrated directly into a verb stem to form a single complex verb.
"Noun incorporation is a prominent morphological feature in many indigenous languages of the Americas."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Late Latin incorporationem, a noun of action from the verb incorporare ('to unite into one body'), derived from Latin in- ('into') and corpus ('body').