integrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təˌɡɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹæɪt/
ipa: /ˈən.tə.ɡɹæɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳʈi.ɡɾeʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳʈəˈɡɾeʈ/
Forms: form: integrates
form: integrating
form: integrated
form: integrated
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.
Senses: examples: text: They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.
text: All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.
ref: 2004, Tammy Ravas, Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: Along the way, companies such as Facebook and Google employ every useful foot soldier, including social scientists such as [Alexander] Kogan who are willing to put their shoulders to the wheel as they help the company learn, perfect, and integrate the cutting-edge methods that can conquer the next frontier […]
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 9, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
text: Vendors must also describe to the Air Force whether they have experience integrating the device with payloads from other businesses, if they are capable of supporting flight test operations and working with ground support equipment and how soon the capability can be delivered.
ref: 2024 September 23, Vanessa Montalbano, “Air Force interested in advanced booster for hypersonic weapons”, in Inside Defense:
glosses: To include as a constituent part or functionality.
examples: text: The refugees integrated well into the community.
text: The eco-friendly building integrates with the forest around it.
glosses: To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1990 04, Richard M. Linchitz, Life Without Pain, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN:
glosses: To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, page 696:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To give the sum or total of a varying quantity over an interval such as a period of time or an area.
examples: text: As Example 9 indicates, we can integrate sinⁿ x if we know how to integrate sinⁿ⁻² x.
ref: 2014 May 10, Stanley I. Grossman, Calculus of One Variable, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 469:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
examples: text: President Eisenhower had to call out the National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
text: That's because this place is racist, but also because most black filmmakers don't have an interest in integrating. They've accepted the premise that they must stay in their lane […]
ref: 1999, Nelson George, Hip Hop America, page 84:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 July 18, Bernard Lafayette Jr., “The First Time John Lewis and I Integrated the Buses”, in New York Times:
antonyms: segregate
glosses: To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
Synonyms: sense: form into one whole
word: embody
word: fuse
word: merge
word: coalesce
sense: include as a constituent part
word: assimilate
word: incorporate
word: swallow
word: absorb
word: add on
word: co-opt
word: corporate
word: incorpse
word: integrate
word: subsume
Hyponyms: word: annex
word: internalize
word: nativize
Derived terms: cointegrate
disintegrate
integrase
integrator
misintegrate
osseointegrate
reintegrate
Related terms: word: integrated
word: integration
word: integrative
word: integrity
word: engulf
word: overwhelm
word: swallow up