inclusion

/ɪnˈkluʒɪn/

/ɪnˈkluʒən/

Other forms: inclusions

Inclusion is the act of including someone in something, like a school, club, or team.

If you are familiar with the word include — meaning to make someone or something a part of something larger — then inclusion should make sense. You might be happy at your inclusion on the school's volleyball team. The inclusion of an actor in a movie is exciting. When there's a new President, people wait and see who will earn inclusion in the cabinet. In biology, an inclusion body is a very small body found within another on the cellular level.

Definitions of inclusion

1. noun

   the act of including
   types:

   incorporation

   including by incorporating

   annexation, appropriation

   incorporation by joining or uniting

   type of:

   increase, step-up

   the act of increasing something
2. noun

   the state of being included
   antonyms:

   exclusion

   the state of being excluded

   types:

   embrace

   the state of taking in or encircling

   encompassment

   including entirely

   type of:

   situation, state of affairs

   the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
3. noun

   the relation of comprising something
   “he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work”

   synonyms: comprehension

   type of:

   involvement

   a connection of inclusion or containment
4. noun

   any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
   “an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell”

   synonyms: cellular inclusion, inclusion body

   types:

   plasmid, plasmid DNA

   a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication

   Russell's body, cancer body

   an inclusion body found in plasma cells in cases of cancer

   type of:

   body

   an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects