integrate

[ in-ti-greyt ]

/ ˈɪn tɪˌgreɪt /

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verb (used with object), in·te·grat·ed, in·te·grat·ing.

to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.

to make up, combine, or complete to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do.

to unite or combine.

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.

to combine (previously segregated educational facilities, classes, and the like) into one unified system; desegregate.

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.

Mathematics. to find the value of the integral of (a function).

to indicate the total amount or the mean value of.

verb (used without object), in·te·grat·ed, in·te·grat·ing.

to become integrated.

to meld with and become part of the dominant culture.

Mathematics.

to perform the operation of integration, or finding the integral of a function or equation.
to find the solution to a differential equation.

Nearby words

Origin of integrate

1630–40; < Latin integrātus past participle of integrāre to renew, restore. See integer, -ate¹

SYNONYMS FOR integrate

2. merge, unify, fuse, mingle.

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Related forms

in·te·gra·tive, adjectivede-in·te·grate, verb, de-in·te·grat·ed, de-in·te·grat·ing.re·in·te·grate, verb, re·in·te·grat·ed, re·in·te·grat·ing.self-in·te·grat·ing, adjective

un·in·te·gra·tive, adjective

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Examples from the Web for integrate

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Often, segregation is blamed on the Roma themselves, whom many accuse of not wanting to integrate due to a “nomadic culture.”
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Start early, integrate the talk into family time, be persistent.
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My concern is to integrate your work with our total social needs.
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After talking it over, they decided that Tom would go to work on a central computer device to integrate all the senses.
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These men could rarely profit from the Army's agreement to integrate all specialist training and assignments.
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Nations, even those that acknowledge the need to integrate, try to secure functioning as autonomous entities.
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British Dictionary definitions for integrate

integrate

verb (ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪt)

to make or be made into a whole; incorporate or be incorporated

(tr) to designate (a school, park, etc) for use by all races or groups; desegregate

to amalgamate or mix (a racial or religious group) with an existing community

maths to perform an integration on (a quantity, expression, etc)

adjective (ˈɪntɪɡrɪt)

made up of parts; integrated

Derived Formsintegrable (ˈɪntəɡrəbəl), adjectiveintegrability, nounintegrative, adjective

Word Origin for integrate

C17: from Latin integrāre; see integer

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Word Origin and History for integrate

integrate

1630s, "to render (something) whole," from Latin integratus, past participle of integrare "make whole," from integer "whole" (see integer). Meaning "to put together parts or elements and combine them into a whole" is from 1802. Integrate in the "racially desegregate" sense is a back-formation from integration, dating to the 1948 U.S. presidential contest. Related: Integrated; integrating.