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improp′er in′tegral, [Math.]
- MathematicsAlso called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.
- Mathematicsa definite integral in which the integrand becomes infinite at a point or points in the interval of integration.
- 1940–45
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