inclusion

n.

1. The act of including or the state of being included.
2. Something included.
3. Geology. A solid, liquid, or gaseous foreign body enclosed in a mineral or rock.
4. Biology. A nonliving mass, such as a droplet of fat, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
5. Computer Science. A logical operation that assumes the second statement of a pair is true if the first one is true.

[Latin inclūsiō, inclūsiōn-, from inclūsus, past participle of inclūdere, to enclose. See include.]

inclusionary in·clu'sion·ar'y (-zhə-nĕr'ē) adj.

n

Definition: addition
Antonyms: exclusion, omission, subtraction

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The presence of foreign matter in a finished material.

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1. the act of enclosing or the condition of being enclosed.
2. anything that is enclosed; a cell inclusion.

• epithelial i. — probably endothelial displacements during embryonic development; epithelial cells in acinar or ductal structure enclosed in a layer of epithelial cells on a basement membrane.
• cell i. — a usually lifeless, often temporary, constituent in the cytoplasm of a cell.
• chlamydial i. — see elementary body.
• dental i. — a tooth so surrounded with bony material that it is unable to erupt.
• fetal i. — a partially developed embryo enclosed within the body of its twin.
• nutritive i's — glycogen inclusions, visible only with electron microscope, include α-particles (rosettes) and β-particles (single particles).

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - indbefatning, medregning, inklusion

Nederlands (Dutch)
het meerekenen/ insluiten, het meegerekend worden, insluitsel

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Math) inclusion

Deutsch (German)
n. - Einbeziehung, Einschluß, Zugehörigkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συμπερίληψη, συνυπολογισμός, περιεχόμενο

Italiano (Italian)
inclusione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - inclusão (f)

Русский (Russian)
включение

Español (Spanish)
n. - inclusión

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - inbegripande, medtagande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
包含, 内含物

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 包含, 內含物

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 포함, 산입, 함유물

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 包含, 包括, 算入, 含有物, 含有

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تضمين, احتواء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הכללה, היכללות, דבר כלול, גוף או חלקיק מובחן מהחומר בו הוא משובץ‬

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