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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹeɪt/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.təˌɡɹeɪt/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹæɪt/

Verb

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.
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.
(mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
Antonym: segregate

The refugees were well integrated into the community.
- 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

(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

Translations

to form into one whole

Bulgarian: обединявам (bg) (obedinjavam)
Catalan: integrar (ca)
Czech: začlenit
Finnish: yhdistää (fi), yhtenäistää (fi)
German: integrieren (de)
Italian: completare (it)
Macedonian: интегрира impf or pf (integrira)
Maori: pāhekoheko
Persian: درهمیدن (fa)
Romanian: integra (ro)
Russian: встро́ить (ru) pf (vstróitʹ)
Ukrainian: об'є́днувати (obʺjédnuvaty)

to include as a constituent part or functionality

French: intégrer (fr)
Greek: εντάσσω (el) (entásso)

to indicate the whole of

Bulgarian: сумирам (sumiram)
Finnish: integroida (fi), summata (fi)
German: integrieren (de)
Italian: integrare (it)
Maori: whakauruuru
Persian: ادغامیدن (fa)

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

Bulgarian: интегрирам (integriram)
Catalan: integrar (ca)
Czech: integrovat
Esperanto: integrali
Finnish: integroida (fi)
French: intégrer (fr)
German: integrieren (de)
Icelandic: tegra, heilda
Italian: integrare (it)
Polish: integrować (pl) impf, scalać impf, całkować (pl) impf, scałkować (pl) pf
Portuguese: integrar (pt)
Romanian: integra (ro)
Russian: интегри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (integrírovatʹ), проинтегри́ровать (ru) pf (prointegrírovatʹ)
Spanish: integrar (es)
Swedish: integrera (sv)
Ukrainian: інтегрува́ти (intehruváty)

to desegregate, as a school or neighborhood

Italian: integrarsi (it), inserirsi (it)
Spanish: integrar (es)
Swedish: integrera (sv)

Anagrams

argentite, ganterite

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

integrate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

integrate f pl

feminine plural of integrato

Anagrams

argentite, attingere, reginetta

Latin

Participle

integrāte

vocative masculine singular of integrātus

Spanish

Verb

integrate

second-person singular voseo imperative of integrar combined with te