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Integral   /ˈɪntəgrəl/  /ˈɪnəgrəl/   Listen
adjective
Integral  adj.  
1.
Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. "A local motion keepeth bodies integral."
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."
3.
(Math.)
(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.


noun
Integral  n.  
1.
A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
2.
(Math.) 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.





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... because a wonderful change for the better had taken place in the government superintendence of schools. Theirs was formerly an odd corner of a kingdom that did not care much about them, and was not homogeneous; it was now an integral part of a well-ordered empire. They confessed that the present state of things cost them much more in taxes, &c., excepting in the upper mountains, where Rosset had a cousin who paid even less than under ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne
... part involved, the changes in the tissues are chiefly directed towards repairing the damage done to the part, and the inflammatory reaction is not only compatible with the occurrence of ideal repair, but may be looked upon as an integral step in the ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
... forwardness. On the other hand, all attempts on the part of a child to be friendly and courteous to strangers should be noted and praised; a child should be encouraged to look upon itself as an integral part of a circle, and not as a silent and ...
— Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear • Arthur Christopher Benson
... on the top of Fiesole, with, cypresses for side scenes, and, even now, lyric tragedies more than AEschylean enacted by clouds and winds in the amphitheatre of mountains beyond. I am thinking of the play as we moderns know it, with a sense of stuffiness as an integral part. Indeed, that stuffiness is by no means its worst feature. The most thrilling moment, I will confess, which theatres can still give me is that—but it is really sui generis and ineffable—when, having got upstairs, you meet in the narrow lobbies of an old-fashioned playhouse the tuning ...
— Hortus Vitae - Essays on the Gardening of Life • Violet Paget, AKA Vernon Lee
... and Mrs. Maldon was equal to it. She very wisely decided that she ought not to concern herself, and could not concern herself, with an aspect of the matter which concerned her trustee alone. And therefore she gave her heart entirely up to an intense gladness at the integral recovery of ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett


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