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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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"Integral" Quotes from Famous Books



... acting by my own will, but some elemental force loves through me; the whole of God's world, all nature, presses this love into my soul and says, "Love her." I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world. I wrote before about the new convictions to which my solitary life had brought me, but no one knows with what labour they shaped themselves within me and with what joy I realized them and saw a new way of life opening out before me; nothing was ...
— The Cossacks • Leo Tolstoy
... territory the whole of whose inhabitants were, at the beginning of recorded history, either actually Hellenic or so thoroughly hellenized that no one thought of calling their Hellenic position in question. Modern policy has restored it to its old position by making it an integral portion of ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various
... to-day that the decision made at the Peace Conference in its Plenary Session, January 25, 1919, to the effect that the establishment of a League of Nations should be made an integral part of the Treaty of Peace, is of final force and that there is no basis whatever for the reports that a change ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty
... Was it that this old carpenter had been a life-long wanderer, whose much rolling, to and fro, not only had gathered no moss; but what is more, had rubbed off whatever small outward clingings might have originally pertained to him? He was a stript abstract; an unfractioned integral; uncompromised as a new-born babe; living without premeditated reference to this world or the next. You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to an equality with the people who had not rebelled, the more reconciled they would feel with their old antagonists, and the better citizens they would be from the beginning. They surely would not make good citizens if ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan


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