in·te·gral
[in-ti-gruh
l, in-teg-ruhl] Show IPA
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or belonging as a part of the whole;constituent or component: integral parts.
2.
necessary to the completeness of the whole: This point isintegral to his plan.
3.
consisting or composed of parts that together constitute awhole.
4.
entire; complete; whole: the integral works of a writer.
5.
noun
7.
an integral whole.
8.
Mathematics .
a.
Also called Riemann integral. the numerical measure of thearea bounded above by the graph of a given function, belowby the x -axis, and on the sides by ordinates drawn at theendpoints of a specified interval; the limit, as the norm ofpartitions of the given interval approaches zero, of the sumof the products of the function evaluated at a point in eachsubinterval times the length of the subinterval.
b.
a primitive.
c.
any of several analogous quantities. Compare improper integral, line integral, multiple integral, surface integral.
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| integral | |
| — adj | |
| 1. | ( |
| 2. | intact; entire |
| 3. | formed of constituent parts; united |
| 4. | maths |
| a. of or involving an integral | |
| b. involving or being an integer | |
| — n | |
| 5. | maths ʃ the limit of an increasingly large number of increasinglysmaller quantities, related to the function that is being integrated(the integrand). The independent variables may be confined withincertain limits ( definite integral ) or in the absence of limits (indefinite integral ) |
| 6. | a complete thing; whole |
| integrality | |
| — n | |
| 'integrally | |
| — adv | |
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integral
1471, "of or pertaining to a whole," from M.Fr. intégral (14c.), fromM.L. integralis "forming a whole," from L. integer "whole" (seeinteger).
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