Meaning

• A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

Meaning

• To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

  "I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental."

• To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.

  "Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?"

• To enclose, confine.

• To conclude; to terminate.

• To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.

  "You have to include the strings library to use this function."