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To include as a constituent part or functionality.transitive
- They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.
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To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.intransitivereflexivesometimes
- The refugees integrated well into the community.
- The eco-friendly building integrates with the forest around it.
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To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.transitive
- 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.
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To give the sum or total of a varying quantity over an interval such as a period of time or an area.transitive
- 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.
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To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.transitive
- As Example 9 indicates, we can integrate sinⁿ x if we know how to integrate sinⁿ⁻² x.
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To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.transitive
- President Eisenhower had to call out the National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
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To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.transitive
syn. fuse · merge · incorporate · swallow · absorb · add on · co-opt · corporate · incorpse · integrate · subsume
ant. disintegrate · divide · extract · segregate · unincorporate