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Definition: Inclusion |
InclusionNoun1. The state of being included. 2. The relation of comprising something; "he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work". 3. Any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell". 4. The act of including. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inclusion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Inclusion \In*clu"sion\, noun. [Latin expression inclusio: compare to the French expression inclusion. See Include.]. (references) |
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Metallurgy | Particles of oxides, silicates, sulphides, refractory materials, slag etc. , embedded in the metal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Any size fragment of another rock enclosed in an igneous rock. Syn:xenolith b. A particle of nonmetallic material retained in a solid metal or alloy. Such inclusions are generally oxides, sulfides, or silicates of the host metal, but may also be particles of refractory materials picked up from a furnace or ladle lining. c. A crystal, aggregate, or minute cavity filled with one or two fluid phases and with or without a crystal phase enclosed in a host crystal.See also:fluid inclusion; three-phase inclusion; negative crystal. (references) |
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Synonyms: InclusionSynonyms: cellular inclusion (n), comprehension (n), inclusion body (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: exclusion (n). (additional references) |
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Class | Noun: {opp. } inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception. |
Composition; (inclusion in a compound). | |
Composition | Noun: composition, crasis; combination; inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception; embodiment; formation. |
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This is a histological slide of the human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) previously known as HBLV, a type of herpes virus that was discovered in October, 1986. This is a photomicrograph of infected cells, with inclusion bodies in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The slide is stained with H&E. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Histopathology of lung shows cytomegalic pneumocyte containing characteristic intranuclear inclusion. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | Range scientist Patricia Bartling reviews land use data for the Sycamore Creek watershed in Michigan for inclusion in NLEAP - a computer program developed to predict potential leaching of nitrate nitrogen and its impact on underlying aquifers. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Any of the Governments of the Members may formally object to the inclusion of any item or items in the agenda. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | B. Notice the abundant RNP in the inclusion. (references) | |
Note the basophilic (dark blue granules in the inclusion). (references) | ||
Efficacy of therapy may be best achieved by inclusion of both partners in treatment plans. (references) | ||
Business | As such, the inclusion or exclusion of firms having this form of management can affect the ratios and benchmarks reported. (references) | |
The only possible exception to this can be found with the inclusion of power generating firms who compete for the business based on margin price. (references) | ||
Any company not currently registered with the GSD wishing to be considered for inclusion in these lists may apply in writing to the Director of Government Supplies. (references) | ||
Children | Croatia | Persons with Disabilities The Constitution ensures "special care for the protection of disabled persons and their inclusion in social life." While persons with disabilities face no openly discriminatory measures, job opportunities generally are limited. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Belgium | Some groups included in the parliamentary list of 189 sects continued to complain that their inclusion has resulted in discriminatory action against them. (references) |
Germany | While many of the pamphlets are factual and relatively unbiased, others may harm the reputations of some groups through innuendo and inclusion in a report covering known dangerous cults or movements. (references) | |
Economic History | Austria | As a result of the inclusion of the FPO on the government, the EU imposed a series of sanctions on Austria. (references) |
Chile | Chile has no minimum local participation requirement, and the inclusion of local partners is guided only by commercial considerations. (references) | |
Slovenia | Current spending on its military as a percentage of GDP compares favorably to the three countries selected at Madrid for NATO inclusion. (references) | |
Human Rights | Spain | In January Amnesty International criticized the Government's inclusion of 14 members of the security forces, who had been convicted of torture, in a millenium pardon. (references) |
Austria | Following the inclusion of the FPO in the Government, several NGO's expressed concern that the country's climate of tolerance and respect for ethnic and religious diversity would worsen. (references) | |
Madagascar | Military courts are integrated into the civil judicial system and differ only in the kinds of cases tried, in the inclusion of military officers on jury panels, and that they only try military defendants. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | Other groups may petition the Speaker of Parliament for inclusion if they believe that they fulfill the requirements. (references) |
Guyana | The Government also sponsored various forums for discussion of racial problems and to promote inclusion, and it supports the work of NGO's that deal with these concerns. (references) | |
United Kingdom | Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, and black-led Christian churches were more likely to report problems ranging from a lack of recognition or inclusion of religious beliefs in education to discrimination or a lack of accommodation of religious beliefs by employers. (references) | |
Political Economy | Fiji | However, despite a constitutional provision requiring that any party receiving more than 10 percent of the seats in Parliament be offered inclusion in Cabinet, Qarase formed a Government which excluded the Fiji Labor Party (FLP), led by deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry. (references) |
Political Rights | Kazakhstan | Participants agreed to a future work plan with the inclusion of the OSCE and all political parties registered in 1999 in a parallel government working group on electoral reform. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | The legislative elections that should have been held in the fall of 1998 were postponed until March 1999. The new electoral census was completed in December 1998, but not all of the opposition parties agreed to sign it due to irregularities, such as the inclusion of the underaged, the dead, and nonresidents, and the exclusion of opposition party members. (references) | |
Trade | Georgia | To date, twenty-two banks have been created with the inclusion of foreign capital. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Côte d'Ivoire is not currently approved for inclusion into the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). (references) | |
Philippines | However, by one measure, the Philippines has the furthest to go among the six original ASEAN members to meet the tariff reduction commitments agreed by ASEAN in December 1998. Under these commitments, the six original ASEAN members agreed to accelerate the tariff reductions in each country's AFTA Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Inclusion List. (references) | |
Women | Thailand | It continues to play an important role in securing the inclusion of gender-equality clauses in legislation that create new government organizations mandated by the 1997 Constitution. (references) |
Somalia | Several women's groups in Mogadishu, Hargeisa (Somaliland), Bosasso (Puntland), and Merka (Lower Shabelle) actively promoted equal rights for women and advocated the inclusion of women in responsible government positions. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | As minimum wage provisions have become more complex through inclusion of a monthly "incentive bonus" and as the minimum wage has risen during the year and with a deepening economic crisis affecting the coffee growing sector, noncompliance with the law, which was already high, also has risen. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inclusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inclusion" is used about 1,152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,152 | 6,668 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "inclusion": } inclusion ♦ acute inclusion body encephalitis ♦ cellular inclusion ♦ cognate inclusion ♦ containment inclusion ♦ email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions ♦ endogenous inclusion ♦ exogenetic inclusion ♦ exogenous inclusion ♦ glassy inclusion ♦ Inclusion Bodies ♦ inclusion body ♦ inclusion body encephalitis ♦ inclusion fee ♦ inclusion in a compound ♦ inclusion of gummed tape ♦ indigenous inclusion ♦ subacute inclusion body encephalitis ♦ with the inclusion of. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "inclusion": inclusion-free, inclusion-poor. | |
Ending with "inclusion": fluid-inclusion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "inclusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtim (accession, accretion, addition, augment, augmentation, build up, enhancement, extension, gain, growth, increase, increment, insertion, intensification, interest, multiplication, proliferation, rise), përfshirje (comprehension, incorporation, insertion), gjë e përfshirë. (various references) | |
Arabic | تضمين (embodiment, implication, implying, modulation), الضمين, شىء متضمن, شمول (comprehensive, containment, thoroughness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | числене, включване (embodiment, engagement, insertion, make, reception), обхващане (comprehension), нещо включено, инклузия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 包括 (Comprise, Comprised, Comprising, Consist, Consisted, Consisting, include, included, Including). (various references) | |
Czech | zahrnutí (involvement), zařazení. (various references) | |
Danish | intra-osseal inklusion, inkorporering (incorporation), inklusion, indeslutning (containment, containment building). (various references) | |
Dutch | insluitsels, insluitsel (wart), insluitlichaampje, insluiting (containment, containment building, occlusion, reactor containment), incorporatie (incorporation), inclusio, inclusie, tandinclusie, celinclusie. (various references) | |
Farsi | گنجایش (Aptitude, Burden, Capacity, Content, Module), شمول (Incurrence, Liability), دخول (Accession, Admission, Arrival, Entree, Entry), دربرداری . (various references) | |
Finnish | tutkimukseen mukaan ottaminen, sulkeuma (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion, glassy inclusion, inhomogeneity, xenolith). (various references) | |
French | inclusion (inlay). (various references) | |
German | einschluss (embedding, locking of the cells). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπερίληψη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | המנות (subscription), הכללה (generality, generalization, incorporation), דבר כלול. (various references) | |
Hungarian | belefoglalás (implication), beleértés (implication). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pencatuman (incorporation), pencantuman (incorporation). (various references) | |
Italian | inclusione (circuit-entering, embedding, implantation, intrusion). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 包含 (comprehension, implication). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふくみ (atmosphere, hidden meaning, implication, latitude, sentiment, tone), ほうがん (ancient Chinese sacrificial ritual, cannon ball, comprehension, implication, shell, shots), ほうかつ (comprehension, subsumption). (various references) | |
Korean | 포함 (Containing, Including). (various references) | |
Manx | goaill stiagh (annex, annexation, comprehend; intake, comprise, contain, include, ingathering, take in, taking in). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inclusionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incluso, inclusões sólidas, inclusão (autolith, cognate inclusion, endogenous enclosure, endogenous inclusion), união de uma substância no interior do organismo (incorporation). (various references) | |
Romanian | includere (comprehension), cuprindere (comprehension). (various references) | |
Russian | включение (comprehension, cut-in, energization, engagement, insertion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uključenje, ubrajanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | inclusión (incorporation). (various references) | |
Swedish | inneslutning (embodiment, envelopment), inlagring, inkludering, inbegripande, medräknande. (various references) | |
Turkish | içine alma, içerme (containment, implication, subsumption), kapsama (comprise, containment, subsumption), dahil etme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уміщення (insertion), включення (comprehension). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự kể vào, sự kể cả cái gồm vào, sự gồm cả. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conplexus, conplexusque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inclusion": inclusions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "inclusion": noninclusion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "inclusion": noninclusions. (additional references) | |
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"Inclusion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inclusa, Inclusio, inclussion, inclution, incusion, inlusio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inclusion" (pronounced i'nkluw"zhun) |
| 7 | -n k l uw" zh u n | conclusion. |
| 6 | -k l uw" zh u n | exclusion, occlusion, preclusion, seclusion. |
| 5 | -l uw" zh u n | allusion, collusion, delusion, disillusion, illusion. |
| 4 | -uw" zh u n | confusion, contusion, diffusion, extrusion, fusion, infusion, intrusion, profusion, transfusion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, conversion, corrosion, decision, derision, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, excursion, explosion, immersion, implosion, incision, incursion, indecision, invasion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occasion, persuasion, perversion, precision, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, version, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: insulin, inulins, nuncios, silicon, uncoils. | |
-3 letters: clonus, colins, conins, consul, coulis, cousin, inions, insoul, inulin, ionics, linins, nicols, nuncio, uncini, uncoil, unions, unison. | |
-4 letters: cions, clons, coils, coins, colin, conin, conns, conus, icons, incus, inion, ionic, linin, linns, linos, lions, locus, loins, louis, nicol, noils, nouns, oculi, scion, sonic, sulci, uncos, union. | |
-5 letters: cion. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: inclusions. | |
+3 letters: connubialism, culminations, inconclusive, inculcations, inculpations, inoculations, inosculating, inosculation, insouciantly, noninclusion, undecillions. | |
+4 letters: calumniations, columniations, connubialisms, disfunctional, functionalism, functionalist, inosculations, instructional, noninclusions, nonlinguistic, vulcanisation. | |
+5 letters: anticonvulsive, bioluminescent, connubialities, constitutional, denticulations, functionalisms, functionalists, hallucinations, inconclusively, insurrectional, licentiousness, nonjusticiable, nullifications, quindecillions, reinoculations, semifunctional, vulcanisations, vulcanizations. | |
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