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in·te·gral     (ĭn'tĭ-grəl, ĭn-těg'rəl)  Pronunciation Key 
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
    1. Expressed or expressible as or in terms of integers.
    2. Expressed as or involving integrals.

n.  
  1. A complete unit; a whole.
  2. (ĭn'tĭ-grəl) Mathematics
    1. 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.
    2. A definite integral.
    3. 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 (-grāl'ĭ-tē) n., in'te·gral·ly adv.
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integral   (ĭn'tĭ-grəl)  Pronunciation Key 
Adjective   Involving or expressed as an integer or integers.

Noun   See definite integral, indefinite integral.

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