in·te·gral
(ĭn′tĭ-grəl, ĭn-tĕg′rəl)adj.1. Essential or necessary for completeness; constituent: The kitchen is an integral part of a house.
2. Possessing everything essential; entire.
3. (ĭn′tĭ-grəl) Mathematics a. Expressed or expressible as or in terms of integers.
b. Expressed as or involving integrals.
n.1. A complete unit; a whole.
2. (ĭn′tĭ-grəl) Mathematics a. A number computed by a limiting process in which the domain of a function, often an interval or planar region, is divided into arbitrarily small units, the value of the function at a point in each unit is multiplied by the linear or areal measurement of that unit, and all such products are summed.
b. A definite integral.
c. An indefinite integral.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin integrālis, making up a whole, from Latin integer, complete; see integer.]
in′te·gral′i·ty (-grăl′ĭ-tē) n.
in′te·gral·ly adv.
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integral
adj 1. (often foll by to) being an essential part (of); intrinsic (to)
2. intact; entire
3. formed of constituent parts; united
4. (Mathematics)
maths a. of or involving an integral
b. involving or being an integer
n 5. (Mathematics) maths the limit of an increasingly large number of increasingly smaller quantities, related to the function that is being integrated (the integrand). The independent variables may be confined within certain limits (definite integral) or in the absence of limits (indefinite integral). Symbol: ∫
6. a complete thing; whole
integrality n
ˈintegrally adv
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in•te•gral
(ˈɪn tɪ grəl, ɪnˈtɛg rəl)
adj. 1. of or belonging as an essential part of the whole; necessary to completeness; constituent: an integral part.
2. composed of parts that together constitute a whole.
3. entire; complete; whole.
4. pertaining to or being an integer; not fractional.
5. pertaining to or involving mathematical integrals.
n. 6. an integral whole.
7. Math. a. Also called
Riemann integral. the numerical measure of the area bounded above by the graph of a given function, below by the
x-axis, and on the sides by ordinates drawn at the endpoints of a specified interval.
b. a primitive.
c. any of several analogous quantities.
[1545–55; < Medieval Latin
integrālis. See
integer,
-al1]
in`te•gral′i•ty, n.
in′te•gral•ly, adv.
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in·te·gral
(ĭn′tĭ-grəl)1. Involving or expressed as an integer or integers.
2. In calculus, the result of integration.
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