inclusion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=clu=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

inclusion, n. [L. inclusio: cf. F. inclusion. See Include.].

•  The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy.  Sir W. Temple.  [1913 Webster]
•  Something that is included.  [PJC]
•  A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small body suspended within the cytoplasm of a cell.  [PJC]
•  The relationship existing between two sets if one is a subset of the other.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

inclusion

Anschluss, absorption, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association, beleaguerment, besetment, blend, blending, blockade, blockading, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, circumscription, classification, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confinement, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, containment, copartnership, copartnery, cordoning, counting, ecumenism, embarrassment, embodiment, embracement, encincture, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, engagement, enmeshment, enosis, entanglement, envelopment, environment, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, girding, girdling, grouping, hookup, immurement, implication, imprisonment, incarceration, incorporation, integration, involution, involvement, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger, numbering, package, package deal, partnership, quarantine, relation, siege, sodality, solidification, sorority, surrounding, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding

ROGET THESAURUS

inclusion

Composition

N composition, constitution, crasis, combination, inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception, embodiment, formation, containing, constituting.

Inclusion

N inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception, composition, included, including, inclusive, congener, congenerous, of the same class, encircling, a maximis ad minima, et hoc genus omne, etc, et coetera.