integrate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   become one

   become integrated

2. 2
   verb

   To include as a constituent part or functionality.

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

3. 3
   verb

   To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.

   The refugees integrated well into the community.

4. 4
   verb

   To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

   Virtually free of pain, she has integrated the broken pieces of her life, is a loving and loved wife and mother, and is back at her job.

5. 5
   verb

   To give the sum or total of a varying quantity over an interval such as a period of time or an area.

   Data gathered at each remote site include sulphur dioxide in parts per million, a five-minute integrated wind direction to the nearest degree and a five-minute integrated wind speed to the nearest one-tenth knot.

6. 6
   verb

   To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.

   As Example 9 indicates, we can integrate sinⁿ x if we know how to integrate sinⁿ⁻² x.

7. 7
   verb

   To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.

   President Eisenhower had to call out the National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School.

8. 8
   verb

   make into a whole or make part of a whole

Etymology

First attested in the 1450's as an adjective, first attested in 1638 as a verb; from Middle English integrat(e) (“intact, whole”), borrowed from Latin integrātus, perfect passive participle of integrō (“to make whole, renew, repair, begin again”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from integer (“whole, fresh”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See integer and integral.