/in kawr'peuh ray"sheuhn/ , n.
1. the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
2. the act of forming a legal corporation.
3. Gram. the inclusion of the object or object reference within the inflected verb form, a type of word-formation frequent in American Indian languages.
4. Psychoanal. 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 .
[ 1350-1400; ME incorporacioun incorporation- (s. of incorporatio ), equiv. to incorporat ( us ) (see INCORPORATE 1 ) + -ion -ION ]