integral function

American  

noun

Mathematics (chiefly British).

1. an entire function.

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Etymology

Origin of integral function

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

An unfortunately large proportion of businessmen," they conclude, "do not look on selling as an integral function of management .

From Time Magazine Archive

Any rational integral function can be converted into the sum of a number of factorials; and thus the sum of a series of which such a function is the general term can be found.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

It can be shown, moreover, that an integral function actually assumes every finite complex value, save, in exceptional cases, one value at most.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

A single valued function is said to be an integral function when it has no singular points except z = ∞.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

We spoke in a previous chapter of choice as an integral function of the organism.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham