integrant
Americanadjective
noun
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an integrant part.
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a solid, rigid sheet of building material composed of several layers of the same or of different materials.
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Etymology
Origin of integrant
1630–40; < Latin integrant- (stem of integrāns ) present participle of integrāre to integrate. See integer, -ant
Example Sentences
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But our Constitution has a plebeian member, which forms an essential integrant part of it.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The soil has not only an integrant and actual value, it has also a potential value,—a value of the future,—which depends on our ability to make it valuable, and to employ it in our work.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
In like manner, an integrant part being taken away, totum integrum cannot remain behind.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
She sang the old French melody out into the trees, and the great notes thrilled and echoed through the wood till it was as though they had become an integrant part of the forest.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)
Disintegrate, dis-in′te-grāt, or diz-, v.t. to separate into integrant parts: to break up.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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