integral
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (3)
- existing as an essential constituent or characteristic“the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity”“a constitutional inability to tell the truth”Synonyms: built-inconstitutionalinbuiltinherentOpposite extrinsicSimilar intrinsic, intrinsical
- constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged“a local motion keepeth bodies integral — Bacon”“was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime”“fought to keep the union intact”Synonyms: entireintactOpposite fractionalSimilar whole
- of or denoted by an integerRelating to integer
Noun (1)
- the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x)Type of calculation, computationKinds indefinite integral, definite integral
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Translations
Noun limit of sums
Adjective essential, integral part
- Spanish
- integral
- German
- integral
- Italian
- integrante
- Portuguese
- integral
- Russian
- неотъе́млемый neotʺjémlemyj
- Dutch
- integraal
- Polish
- integralny
- Greek
- αναπόσπαστος anapóspastos
- Indonesian
- integral
- Hungarian
- szerves
5 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- integral
- Czech
- nedílný
- Esperanto
- integra
- Finnish
- olennainen
- Romanian
- integral
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. F. intégral. See Integer.
1. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
A local motion keepeth bodies integral.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
2. Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.
Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty.— Robert South
3. Mathematics (a) Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional. (b) Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus.
Integral calculus. See under Calculus.
1. A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
2. Mathematics An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent.
Elliptic integral, one of an important class of integrals, occurring in the higher mathematics; — so called because one of the integrals expresses the length of an arc of an ellipse.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54