integrate

integrate

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for integrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integrātus, perfect participle of integrō (“I make whole, I renew, I repair, I begin again”), from integer (“whole, fresh”); see integer, integral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəɡɹeɪt/

Verb

integrate (third-person singular simple present integrates, present participle integrating, simple past and past participle integrated)

1. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
2. To include as a constituent part or functionality.

   They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.

3. To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
4. (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
5. To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.

   The refugees were well integrated into the community.

6. (genetics) To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.

Synonyms

• (form into one whole): embody, fuse, merge; see also Thesaurus:coalesce
• (include as a constituent part): assimilate, incorporate, swallow; see also Thesaurus:integrate

Related terms

• integration

Translations

to form into one whole

Bulgarian: обединявам (bg) (obedinjavam) Catalan: integrar (ca) Czech: začlenit Finnish: yhdistää (fi), yhtenäistää German: integrieren (de)

Maori: pāhekoheko Romanian: integra (ro) Russian: встро́ить (ru) pf (vstróitʹ) Ukrainian: об'є́днувати (obʺjédnuvaty)

to indicate the whole of

Bulgarian: сумирам (sumiram) Finnish: integroida (fi), summata (fi) German: integrieren (de)

Maori: whakauruuru

to subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of

Bulgarian: интегрирам (integriram) Catalan: integrar (ca) Czech: integrovat Esperanto: integri (eo) Finnish: integroida (fi) German: integrieren (de) Icelandic: tegra, heilda

Polish: integrować (pl) impf, scalać impf Romanian: integra (ro) Russian: интегри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (integrírovatʹ), проинтегри́ровать (ru) pf (prointegrírovatʹ) Swedish: integrera (sv) Ukrainian: інтегрува́ти (intehruváty)

to desegregate, as a school or neighborhood

Swedish: integrera (sv)

Anagrams

• argentite, ganterite

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Italian

Verb

integrate

1. inflection of integrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of integrato

Anagrams

• attingere
• reginetta

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Latin

Participle

integrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of integrātus