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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.

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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integrally - in an integral manner

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It is there that I, intent on my own investigations, have passed and re-passed a hundred times the worn leonine face, white as the snow beneath him, furrowed with wrinkles like the seams and gashes upon the North Cape; the nervous hand, integrally a part of the mechanism of his flighter; and above all, the wonderful lambent eyes turned to the zenith.

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