Definition of "incorporation" in inglés

noun

1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.

2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.

3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.

   • After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.

4. The act of creating a corporation.

5. A body incorporated; a corporation.

6. (linguistics) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

   • Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.

7. (law) A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. ᵂᵖ