integrate

Meaning

1. To include as a constituent part or functionality.
2. To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.
3. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
4. To give the sum or total of a varying quantity over an interval such as a period of time or an area.
5. To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
6. To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
7. To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
8. composite
9. whole, complete, perfect

Etymology / origin

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.

Related words

Descendant words

• adaptate(English) (cog)
• integroida(Finnish) (cog)
• enterar(Spanish) (cog)
• entregar(Spanish) (cog)
• integrar(Spanish) (cog)
• integru(Welsh) (bor)

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