integrate
English
[edit]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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.təˌɡɹeɪt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹæɪt/
Verb
[edit]integrate (third-person singular simple present integrates, present participle integrating, simple past and past participle integrated)
- To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
- To include as a constituent part or functionality.
- They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.
- The refugees were well integrated into the community.
- To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of.
- An integrating anemometer is one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
- (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
- To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
- Antonym: segregate
- President Eisenhower had to call out the National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
- 2020 July 18, Bernard Lafayette Jr., “The First Time John Lewis and I Integrated the Buses”, in New York Times[1]:
- I continued on the bus without him. It worked out fine. I went on to Tampa, Fla. That was the first time we integrated the buses. All the way down, sitting in the front row.
- (genetics) To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
Synonyms
[edit]- (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]to form into one whole
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to include as a constituent part or functionality
to indicate the whole of
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to subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of
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to desegregate, as a school or neighborhood
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]integrate
- inflection of integrare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]integrate f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]integrāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]integrate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of integrar combined with te
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