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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.
EXPANDto 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.
COLLAPSEto 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.
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Reintegrating
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Origin:
1630–40; < Latin integrātus past participle of integrāre to renew, restore. See integer, -ate1
1630–40; < Latin integrātus past participle of integrāre to renew, restore. See integer, -ate1
Related forms
in·te·gra·tive, adjective
de-in·te·grate, verb, -grat·ed, -grat·ing.
re·in·te·grate, verb, -grat·ed, -grat·ing.
self-in·te·grat·ing, adjective
un·in·te·gra·tive, adjective
Synonyms
2. merge, unify, fuse, mingle.
2. merge, unify, fuse, mingle.
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Word Origin & History
integrate
1630s, "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. Integrate in the "racially desegregate" sense is a back formation
EXPANDfrom integration, dating to the 1948 to U.S. presidential contest.
COLLAPSE
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