Inclusion

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.”

“The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.”

“The fewer inclusions a diamond has, the better is its clarity and value. Often the inclusions can be cut⟳ out of a diamond in the rough.”

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