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incorporation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incorporation \In*cor`po*ra"tion\, n. [L. incorporatio: cf. F. incorporation.]
The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic.
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(Law)
The act of creating a corporation.
A body incorporated; a corporation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., incorporacioun, "act or process of combining of substances; absorption of light or moisture," from Old French incorporacion or directly from Late Latin incorporationem (nominative incorporatio), noun of action from past participle stem of incorporare (see incorporate). Meaning "the formation of a corporate body" (such as a guild) is from early 15c.\n\nIncorporation, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for their actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless.
[Ambrose Bierce, 1885]
Wiktionary
n. 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; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic. 4 The act of creating a corporation. 5 A body incorporated; a corporation. 6 (cx linguistics English) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
WordNet
n. consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body
learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself [syn: internalization, internalisation]
including by incorporation
Wikipedia
Incorporation is the forming of a new corporation (a corporation being a legal entity that is effectively recognized as a person under the law). The corporation may be a business, a non-profit organization, sports club, or a government of a new city or town. This article focuses on the process of incorporation; see also corporation.
Incorporation is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object (object incorporation) 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. However, polysynthesis does not necessarily imply incorporation (Mithun 2009); neither does the presence of incorporation in a language imply that that language is polysynthetic.
Incorporation may refer to:
- Incorporation (business), the creation of a corporation
- Incorporation (association), giving legal form to an association by registering it as a corporation
- Incorporation of a place, creation of municipal corporation such as a city or county
- Incorporation of the Bill of Rights, extension of parts of the United States Bill of Rights to bind individual American states.
- Incorporation of international law, giving domestic legal force to a sovereign state's international legal obligations
- Incorporation (linguistics)
Incorporation is a university academic practice, particularly at the University of Oxford dating back to 1516, of awarding a degree based on the student having an equivalent degree from another university.
Incorporation is a way of viewing a degree from another university as if it were an Oxford Degree. It is particularly used for the Master of Arts degree, which historically grants various rights of governing the university, to those holding a College Fellowship, University Lectureship, or Professorship, and other positions in the university. This ensures these rights are available to all who should have them, regardless of where they originally received their degrees.
Usage examples of "incorporation".
Bullock, S, Rose, S P R, and Zamani, R Characterisation and regional localisation of pre- and postsynaptic glycoproteins of the chick forebrain showing changed fucose incorporation following passive avoidance training.
Wright, the contract clause had been considered in almost forty per cent of all cases involving the validity of State legislation, and of these the vast proportion involved legislative grants of one type or other, the most important category being charters of incorporation.
Gold, who suggested the incorporation of a robot detective and the Malthusian outlook on overpopulation.
In many of the Southern States, notably Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, Alliance men took possession of the Democratic conventions and forced both the incorporation of their demands into the platforms and the nomination of candidates who agreed to support those demands.
All the brain tissue metabolic processes, the incorporation of the radioactive sugar membranes, the post-mortem decay and dissolution of all have been halted indefinitely by the freezing.
For a long time after one of the great Virginia mines had been incorporated, about fifty feet of the original location were still in the hands of a man who had never signed the incorporation papers.
Of course the will was safely lodged with the Vestals and Juncus had already received his instructions to proceed with incorporation of Bithynia into the Asia Province the moment you informed him the King was dead, so the House presumed all was in train.
When that sort of economic powerhouse expanded into the vicinity of star systems which could scarcely keep their heads above water, the train of events leading to eventual incorporation extended itself with the inevitability of entropy.
There were others like it, tucked between the balconied, carefully varied faces of condos and apartment complexes, tiny properties dating from before the area's incorporation into the city.
We'd signed the articles of incorporation the day before, after Group.
I had just finished drawing up some articles of incorporation for him, and there were some minor changes to be made in them.
In the second place, the articles of incorporation would prohibit him from doing anything like that, even if he wanted to.
Or, at least, until the Incorporation is a done deal and he and his crackpots become the responsibility of the local authorities.
Petition of Thomas Boyd, and several hundred merchants, owners and masters of ships, sailmakers, weavers, and other traders, praying a charter of incorporation, empowering them to borrow money for purchasing lands, in order to the manufacturing sail-cloth and fine Holland.
Petition of Captain Macphedris, of London, merchant, on behalf of himself and several merchants, clothiers, hatters, dyers, and other traders, praying a charter of incorporation, empowering them to raise a sufficient sum of money to purchase lands for planting and rearing a wood called madder, for the use of dyers.