say it: in-KLOO-zhuhn
inclusion is a noun meaning "the state of being included". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the state of being included
the relation of comprising something
“he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work”
any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
“an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell”
the act of including
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inclusion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.