inclusion
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkluːʒən/
The English word “inclusion” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- Restriction; limitation.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inclūsiō, inclūsiōnis, from the verb Latin inclūdō (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”). By surface analysis, include + -sion. Doublet of enclosure.
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