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in⋅te⋅grate

   [in-ti-greyt]
verb, -grat⋅ed, -grat⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
2. to make up, combine, or complete to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do.
3. to unite or combine.
4. to give or cause to give equal opportunity and consideration to (a racial, religious, or ethnic group or a member of such a group): to integrate minority groups in the school system.
5. to combine (educational facilities, classes, and the like, previously segregated by race) into one unified system; desegregate.
6. to give or cause to give members of all races, religions, and ethnic groups an equal opportunity to belong to, be employed by, be customers of, or vote in (an organization, place of business, city, state, etc.): to integrate a restaurant; to integrate a country club.
7. Mathematics. to find the integral of.
8. to indicate the total amount or the mean value of.
–verb (used without object)
9. to become integrated.
10. to meld with and become part of the dominant culture.
11. Mathematics.
a. to perform the operation of integration.
b. to find the solution to a differential equation.
Origin:
1630–40; < L integrātus ptp. of integrāre to renew, restore. See integer, -ate 1
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Language Translation for : integrate
Spanish: integrar(se), German: eingliedern, Japanese: 融けこむ
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in·te·grate     (ĭn'tĭ-grāt')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   inte·grat·ed, inte·grat·ing, inte·grates

v.   tr.
  1. To make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify.
    1. To join with something else; unite.
    2. To make part of a larger unit: integrated the new procedures into the work routine.
    3. To open to people of all races or ethnic groups without restriction; desegregate.
    4. To admit (a racial or ethnic group) to equal membership in an institution or society.
    5. To calculate the integral of.
    6. To perform integration on.
    1. To open to people of all races or ethnic groups without restriction; desegregate.
    2. To admit (a racial or ethnic group) to equal membership in an institution or society.
    3. To calculate the integral of.
    4. To perform integration on.
  4. Mathematics
    1. To calculate the integral of.
    2. To perform integration on.
  5. Psychology To bring about the integration of (personality traits).

v.   intr.
To become integrated or undergo integration.


[From Middle English, intact, from Latin integrātus, past participle of integrāre, to make whole, from integer, complete; see tag- in Indo-European roots.]

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integrate  (v.)
1638, "to render (something) whole," from L. integratus, pp. of integrare "make whole," from integer "whole" (see integer). Meaning "to put together parts or elements and combine them into a whole" is from 1802. Integration in social/racial relations, 1940, originally in South Africa. Back-formation integrate (in this sense) dates from 1948, in ref. to U.S. presidential contest of that year. Desegregate in this sense first recorded 1940.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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integrate

verb
1. make into a whole or make part of a whole; "She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal" [ant: disintegrate] 
2. open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated" [syn: desegregate] [ant: segregate] 
3. become one; become integrated; "The students at this school integrate immediately, despite their different backgrounds" 
4. calculate the integral of; calculate by integration [ant: differentiate] 

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Integrate

In"te*grant\, a. [L. integrans, -antis, p. pr. of integrare to make whole, renew: cf. F. int['e]grant. See Integrate.] Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. --Boyle.

All these are integrant parts of the republic. --Burke.

Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.

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