incorporation: Meaning and Definition of

in•cor•po•ra•tion

1. the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
2. the act of forming a legal corporation.
3. the inclusion of the object or object reference within the inflected verb form, a type of word-formation frequent in American Indian languages.
4. the adoption of the views or characteristics of others, occurring in children as part of learning and maturation and in adults as a defense mechanism. Cf. introjection.