Integration

1. Actual mechanisms and organizational principles which hold a system together (whereas wholeness is a general measurement of internal interdependence).

2. A shorthand word used to designate continuous, intelligent, interactive, adjusting behaviour.

3. A relationship between a sequence of activities such that an individual goal may be attributed to each, and at the same time an ultimate goal to the whole sequence.

4. The sum of the processes by which the developing parts of an organism or organization are formed into a functional and structural whole.

5. A combination and coordination (frequently on an hierarchical basis) of separate and diverse elements, functions, units or groups into a more complete or harmonious whole.