integrate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make into a whole or make part of a whole
    incorporate.
    • She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal
  2. verb open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
    desegregate; mix.
    • This school is completely desegregated
  3. verb become one; become integrated
    • The students at this school integrate immediately, despite their different backgrounds
  4. verb calculate the integral of; calculate by integration

WordNet

In"te*grate transitive verb
Etymology
L. integratus, p. p. of integrare to make whole, renew: cf. F. intégrer. See Integer, Entire.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Integrated ; present participle & verbal noun Integrating
Definitions
  1. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect. "That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious empire." De Quincey.
    Two distinct substances, the soul and body, go to compound and integrate the man. South.
  2. To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
  3. (Math.) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.

Webster 1913