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integrate

[in-ti-greyt]
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verb (used with object), in·te·grat·ed, in·te·grat·ing.
  1. to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
  2. to make up, combine, or complete to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do.
  3. to unite or combine.
  4. 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.
  5. to combine (previously segregated educational facilities, classes, and the like) into one unified system; desegregate.
  6. 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.
  7. Mathematics. to find the value of the integral of (a function).
  8. to indicate the total amount or the mean value of.
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verb (used without object), in·te·grat·ed, in·te·grat·ing.
  1. to become integrated.
  2. to meld with and become part of the dominant culture.
  3. Mathematics.
    1. to perform the operation of integration, or finding the integral of a function or equation.
    2. to find the solution to a differential equation.
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Origin of integrate

1630–40; < Latin integrātus past participle of integrāre to renew, restore. See integer, -ate1
Related formsin·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, adjectiveun·in·te·gra·tive, adjective

Synonyms

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2. merge, unify, fuse, mingle.
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  • It has acted as a disintegrating as well as an integrating force.

  • And if so, why may not this integrating, as I should propose to call it, have been going on for ever?

    Theism

    Robert Flint

  • Only the integrating force of state building could have stopped this slave trade.

    The Negro

    W.E.B. Du Bois

  • It consists of ten integrating machines in a row, coupled up and working together.

  • Integrating procedures ascertain a different form of cooperation and competition.

British Dictionary definitions for integrating

integrate

verb (ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪt)
  1. to make or be made into a whole; incorporate or be incorporated
  2. (tr) to designate (a school, park, etc) for use by all races or groups; desegregate
  3. to amalgamate or mix (a racial or religious group) with an existing community
  4. maths to perform an integration on (a quantity, expression, etc)
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adjective (ˈɪntɪɡrɪt)
  1. made up of parts; integrated
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Derived Formsintegrable (ˈɪntəɡrəbəl), adjectiveintegrability, nounintegrative, adjective

Word Origin

C17: from Latin integrāre; see integer
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Word Origin and History for integrating

integrate

v.

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.

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