different between integrate vs integer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integr?tus, perfect participle of integr? (“I make whole, I renew, I repair, I begin again”), from integer (“whole, fresh”); see integer, integral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt???e?t/

Verb

integrate (third-person singular simple present integrates, present participle integrating, simple past and past participle integrated)

1. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
2. To include as a constituent part or functionality.

3. 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.
4. (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
5. To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.

   Antonym: segregate
6. (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

• integration

Translations

Anagrams

• argentite, ganterite

Italian

Verb

integrate

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

Anagrams

• attingere
• reginetta

Latin

Participle

integr?te

1. vocative masculine singular of integr?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integer (“untouched, unhurt, unchanged, sound, fresh, whole, entire, pure, honest”), from in + tangere (“to touch”). Doublet of entire. See tangere, tact. Related to English thack and thwack.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n't?j?r, IPA^(key): /??n.t?.d???(?)/

Noun

integer (plural integers)

1. (arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
   • 1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:

     God made the integers; all else is the work of man.

Synonyms

• whole number, when understood to include negative numbers and zero.
• integral number

Hypernyms

• rational number
  • real number
• Gaussian integer
  • quadratic integer
    • algebraic integer
      • algebraic number

Hyponyms

• natural number
• zero

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• integer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• integer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

• integer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• greetin', teering, treeing

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

integer (comparative integerder, superlative integerst)

1. honest, trustworthy, having integrity

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

integer (comparative integrer, superlative am integersten)

1. with integrity, of integrity

Declension

Related terms

• Integrität

Further reading

• “integer” in Duden online

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *entagros, from Proto-Indo-European *n?th?gros, from *teh?g- (whence tang?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.te.?er/, [??n?t????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.te.d??er/, [?in?t??d???r]

Adjective

integer (feminine integra, neuter integrum, comparative integrior, superlative integerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. complete, whole, intact
2. uninjured, sound, healthy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• integer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• integer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• integer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• integer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integer.

Adjective

integer (comparative integerder, superlative integers, predicative superlative 't integers)

1. friendly
2. complete, whole, intact

Usage notes

Unlike in Dutch, it is not used in the meaning of honest or trustworthy.

Inflection