inclusion

Meaning

1. (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
2. (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
3. (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
4. (countable) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
5. (countable, uncountable) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
6. (countable, uncountable) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
7. (countable, uncountable) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Restriction; limitation.

Synonyms

comprehension

incorporation

insertion

cellular inclusion

inclusion body

addition

implication

cut-in

attachment

membership

enclosure

entering

include

interpolation

subsumption

supplement

contain

annex

amendment

addendum

affix

component part

component

adulterant

accessory

comprise

conjunction

consist of

constituent

containment

abridgement

combination

buildup

admixture

brief

end

🔚

bit

admittance

abstract

enclave

entrapment

fossil

gain

gathering

embody

implicit

impurity

embodiment

incorporate

atmosphere

Translations

inclusion

inclusione

inclusão

inclusión

inclusió

Einschluss

incorporatie

adhésion

aggiunta

Inkluse

Einschluß

Einsprengung

Inklusion

inserimento

συμπερίληψη

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈkluːʒən/

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”). By surface analysis, include + -sion. Doublet of enclosure.