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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero;
- Example: "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
[syn: integer, whole number]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Whole \Whole\, a. [OE. hole, hol, hal, hool, AS. h[=a]l well, sound, healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h?l, D. heel, G. heil, Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well, sound, OIr. c?l augury. Cf. Hale, Hail to greet, Heal to cure, Health, Holy.] [1913 Webster] 1. Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation. "On their whole host I flew unarmed." --Milton. [1913 Webster] The whole race of mankind. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole. [1913 Webster] My life is yet whole in me. --2 Sam. i. 9. [1913 Webster] 3. Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well. [1913 Webster] [She] findeth there her friends hole and sound. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] They that be whole need not a physician. --Matt. ix. 12. [1913 Webster] When Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Whole blood. (Law of Descent) See under Blood, n., 2. Whole note (Mus.), the note which represents a note of longest duration in common use; a semibreve. Whole number (Math.), a number which is not a fraction or mixed number; an integer. Whole snipe (Zool.), the common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] Syn: All; total; complete; entire; integral; undivided; uninjured; unimpaired; unbroken; healthy. Usage: Whole, Total, Entire, Complete. When we use the word whole, we refer to a thing as made up of parts, none of which are wanting; as, a whole week; a whole year; the whole creation. When we use the word total, we have reference to all as taken together, and forming a single totality; as, the total amount; the total income. When we speak of a thing as entire, we have no reference to parts at all, but regard the thing as an integer, i. e., continuous or unbroken; as, an entire year; entire prosperity. When we speak of a thing as complete, there is reference to some progress which results in a filling out to some end or object, or a perfected state with no deficiency; as, complete success; a complete victory. [1913 Webster] All the whole army stood agazed on him. --Shak. [1913 Webster] One entire and perfect chrysolite. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Lest total darkness should by night regain Her old possession, and extinguish life. --Milton. [1913 Webster] So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

whole number n 1: any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero; "an integer is a number that is not a fraction" [syn: integer, whole number]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

integer whole number (Or "whole number") One of the numbers in the set ..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ... There are an infinite number of integers, though each one is finite. An inductive definition of an integer is a number that is either zero or an integer plus or minus one. An integer has no fractional part. If written as a real number, e.g. 42.0, the part after the decimal point will be zero. A natural number is a non-negative integer. Computers usually store integers in binary. Natural numbers can be stored as unsigned integers and integers that may be negative require a sign bit and typically use twos complement representation. Other representations have been used, such as binary-coded decimal. Computers are particularly fast when operating on integers as the operations are built into the central processing unit, in contrast to floating point numbers, which typically require the use of a separate floating-point unit. (2019-08-31)