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Definition of integral

adjective

Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɪgr(ə)l, ɪnˈtɛgr(ə)l/
  • 1necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental:games are an integral part of the school’s curriculum systematic training should be integral to library management
  • included as part of a whole rather than supplied separately:the unit comes complete with integral pump and heater
  • having all the parts that are necessary to be complete:the first integral recording of the ten Mahler symphonies
  • 2 Mathematics of or denoted by an integer.
  • involving only integers, especially as coefficients of a function.

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɪgr(ə)l/
Mathematics
  • a function of which a given function is the derivative, i.e. which yields that function when differentiated, and which may express the area under the curve of a graph of the function. See also definite integral, indefinite integral.
  • a function satisfying a given differential equation.

Derivatives

integrality

Pronunciation: /-ˈgralɪti/
noun

integrally

adverb

Origin:

mid 16th century: from late Latin integralis, from integer 'whole' (see integer). Compare with integrate and integrity

There are two possible pronunciations for integral as an adjective: one with the stress on the in- and the other with the stress on the -teg-. In British English, the second pronunciation is sometimes frowned on, but both are acceptable as standard.

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