absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution
the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
the act of combining into an integral whole
at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
a vertical structural member as a post or stake
something that is oriented vertically
upright in position or posture
