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Meaning of 'integral'
Meaning of 'integral' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Integral 
[ a.]
- Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect;
uninjured; whole; entire. [ a.]- Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.
- Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional.
- Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus.
2. Integral [ n.]
- A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual. [ n.]- An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent.
Meaning of 'integral' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. integral [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
- constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
Example in sentence:
- a local motion keepeth bodies integral;
- fought to keep the union intact;
- was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime
Meaning (2):
- existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
- existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
Example in sentence:
- a constitutional inability to tell the truth;
- the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity
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