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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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