Definition of "integral" []

• Essential or necessary for completeness; constituent: The kitchen is an integral part of a house. (adjective)
• Possessing everything essential; entire. (adjective)
• Mathematics Expressed or expressible as or in terms of integers. (adjective)
• Mathematics Expressed as or involving integrals. (adjective)
• A complete unit; a whole. (noun)

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• "Of course, I disagree in that I-I "owns", in any meaningful sense, the term integral, or that "they ARE the authority"."
• "Is the term integral or superfluous to the substance of these papers?"
• ""We had a bet about the pronunciation of the word 'integral'," he recalls."