the act of combining or adding parts to make a unified whole the act of amalgamating an ethnic or religious group with an existing community the combination of previously racially segregated social facilities into a nonsegregated system organization into a unified pattern, esp of different aspects of the personality into a hierarchical system of functions the assimilation of nutritive material by the body during the process of anabolism an operation used in calculus in which the integral of a function or variable is determined; the inverse of differentiation
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in•te•grate /ˈɪntɪˌgreɪt/USA pronunciation
v., -grat•ed, -grat•ing.
in•te•gra•tion /ˌɪntɪˈgreɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]fought for integration for all races.
in•te•gra•tive, adj. See -tact-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- to bring together, combine, or incorporate into a whole or into a larger unit:[~ + object (+ into + object)]He integrated several ideas from that novelist into his writing.
- to (cause to) become part of a larger unit, as by giving equal opportunity and consideration to: [~ + object]to integrate an individual into society.[no object]My immigrant grandmother lived in this country for eighty years but she never integrated into the society.
- Sociology to make (a school, etc.) open or available to all racial and ethnic groups:[~ + object]By the end of the sixties the restaurants were integrated.
in•te•gra•tion /ˌɪntɪˈgreɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]fought for integration for all races.
in•te•gra•tive, adj. See -tact-.
in•te•gra•tion
(in′ti grā′shən),USA pronunciation n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- Sociologyan act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
- Sociologyan act or instance of integrating an organization, place of business, school, etc.
- Mathematicsthe operation of finding the integral of a function or equation, esp. solving a differential equation.
- behavior, as of an individual, that is in harmony with the environment.
- Psychologythe organization of the constituent elements of the personality into a coordinated, harmonious whole.
- Geneticscoadaptation (def. 2).
- 1610–20; integrate + -ion; compare Latin integrātiō renewal
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged combination, blending, fusing.
in•te•grate
(in′ti grāt′),USA pronunciation v., -grat•ed, -grat•ing.
v.t.
v.i.
in′te•gra′tive, adj.
v.t.
- 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.
- Sociologyto 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.
- Sociologyto combine (educational facilities, classes, and the like, previously segregated by race) into one unified system;
desegregate. - Sociologyto give or cause to give members of all races, religions, 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.
- Mathematicsto find the integral of.
- to indicate the total amount or the mean value of.
v.i.
- Sociologyto become integrated.
- Sociologyto meld with and become part of the dominant culture.
- Mathematics
- Mathematicsto perform the operation of integration.
- Mathematicsto find the solution to a differential equation.
- Latin integrātus past participle of integrāre to renew, restore. See integer, -ate1
- 1630–40
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged merge, unify, fuse, mingle.
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