integrate
Americanverb (used with object)
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integrates,
present (3rd person singular)
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integrated,
past participle, past
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integrating
present participle
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to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
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to make up, combine, or complete to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do.
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to unite or combine.
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to give or cause to give equal opportunity and consideration to (a racial, religious, or ethnic group or a member of such a group).
to integrate minority groups in the school system.
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to combine (previously segregated educational facilities, classes, and the like) into one unified system; desegregate.
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to give or cause to give members of all racial, religious, and ethnic groups an equal opportunity to belong to, be employed by, be customers of, or vote in (an organization, place of business, city, state, etc.).
to integrate a restaurant;
to integrate a country club.
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Mathematics. to find the value of the integral of (a function).
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to indicate the total amount or the mean value of.
verb (used without object)
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integrates,
present (3rd person singular)
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integrated,
past participle, past
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integrating
present participle
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to become integrated.
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to meld with and become part of the dominant culture.
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Mathematics.
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to perform the operation of integration, or finding the integral of a function or equation.
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to find the solution to a differential equation.
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verb
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to make or be made into a whole; incorporate or be incorporated
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(tr) to designate (a school, park, etc) for use by all races or groups; desegregate
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to amalgamate or mix (a racial or religious group) with an existing community
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maths to perform an integration on (a quantity, expression, etc)
adjective
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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integrabilitynoun
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de-integrateverb
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reintegrateverb
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integrableadjective
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integrativeadjective
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unintegrativeadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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integratesimple
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integratessimple
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have integratedperfect
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has integratedperfect
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am integratingprogressive
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are integratingprogressive
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is integratingprogressive
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have been integratingperfect progressive
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has been integratingperfect progressive
Past
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integratedsimple
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had integratedperfect
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was integratingprogressive
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were integratingprogressive
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had been integratingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of integrate
First recorded in 1630–40; from Latin integrātus, past participle of integrāre “to renew, restore”; see integer, -ate 1
Explanation
To integrate is to make parts of something into a whole. It also means to become one unit, or to make a place (like a school) open to people of all races and ethnic groups. One of the results of the Civil Rights Movement was the decision to integrate the schools of the American South. Before this point, African-American students went to different schools than white students. After the decision to integrate the schools, students of all races went to the same schools. Integrate also means to make into a whole or to incorporate into a larger structure: "If your school is missing a unit on thermodynamics, your science teacher could integrate it into the curriculum."
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Example Sentences
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The company uses a variety of AI models to power its agent, and plans to integrate with Meta’s Muse agent, Vilk added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Northern Ireland Executive published a Refugee Integration Strategy in 2025, external to help refugees and asylum seekers integrate into Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
And their small population and longstanding ties to Guam made it easier to integrate them into the nation.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Los Angeles Police Department, which focused on evacuations, did not integrate under the same command as the LAFD.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
She would create a story to try to integrate events, actions, and feelings into one structure — a process that is a critical part of a child’s mental development.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
This integrates Anthropic’s Claude directly into Salesforce’s platform.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The study, "Frontoparietal hub connectivity integrates information from multiple sources," was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Prada said Thursday that its net profit slumped in the first half of this year as it integrates its new brand Versace, amid what the luxury fashion company called a "disrupted" macroeconomic environment.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
And Sonny eventually integrates with a few of her fellow resort-goers, and learns there’s more to them in reality than her imaginings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Such a view hardly does justice to artistic creativity, since art is not simply a negative force at the mercy of our neuroses but a positive expression that integrates diverse aspects of personality.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
The companies seeing more significant financial returns, the authors found, are those that have integrated AI most fully up and down the business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Growth outcomes were highly uneven across economies, depending on their exposure to the war and whether they were integrated into AI supply chains.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Hanju Kim, an integrated M.S./Ph.D. student, participated as a co-author, with Professor Ryu overseeing the research.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The vision of a fully integrated, "end-to-end" space sector is moving closer to reality.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Once the buses were integrated, there would be no need for a bus boycott.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
By integrating quantum mechanics simulations, machine learning, automated identification of chemical reactions, and models of reaction rates, the approach could help researchers investigate other important industrial processes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
For Cave, "arguably the most critical part" is integrating players into the city and the culture of English life.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“For European industry, selectively integrating this know-how into its own value chain can therefore be more effective than trying to recreate every capability independently from scratch,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Two days into Lakers training camp while integrating nine new players during yet another physical practice session, Austin Reaves has been impressed with just how good this Lakers group can be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
We integrating students shared many things in common.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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