includes

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of include.

   The new contract includes health coverage for part-time staff.

   This museum tour includes access to the rooftop gallery.

   Note

   The everyday form behind prices, packages and contracts: the fare includes breakfast, the set includes four mugs. It also has a programmer's use, where one source file includes another by a directive that pulls its code in. Two older senses of include, 'enclose' and 'conclude', are obsolete, so a modern includes means taking something in as a part. The same spelling serves as the plural noun from programming.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of include.

   The build broke because several includes pointed to missing headers.

   Cleaning up redundant includes cut the compile time in half.

   Note

   A programmer's plural. Each include is a piece of source code or other content that is retrieved dynamically and placed inside another item. The noun grew from the verb's directive sense, and it shares its spelling with the present-tense verb. Context tells them apart: 'the page includes a header' is the verb, and 'the page's includes' is the noun.

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