integrate
- 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.
- 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.
Origin of integrate
Synonyms for integrate
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comRelated Words for reintegrate
restore, rejuvenate, reinvigorate, rebuild, recover, refurbish, save, mend, reconstruct, reestablish, reclaim, improve, reintegrate, convert, reform, clear, redeem, renew, restitute, reinstateExamples from the Web for reintegrate
Contemporary Examples of reintegrate
Kromah is among the many Ebola survivors who are finding it difficult to reintegrate into their various neighborhoods.
This Man Lost 35 Relatives to Ebola and His Community Wants Him GoneWade C.L. Williams
October 30, 2014
A second $1 million grant will be used to reintegrate former child soldiers back into local communities.
Historical Examples of reintegrate
They will be able to disintegrate their bodies in New York and reintegrate them in China—and in a matter of seconds.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930Victor Rousseau
Moeller, of Koenigsberg, tried to reintegrate Bouchut's method with certain ameliorations, but failed.
Makers of Modern MedicineJames J. Walsh
reintegrate
- (tr) to make or be made into a whole againto reintegrate inner divisions
- (often foll by into) to amalgamate or help to amalgamate (a group) with an existing communityreintegrate young homeless people into society
integrate
- 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)
- made up of parts; integrated
Word Origin for integrate
Word Origin and History for reintegrate
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.