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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

integrans

-antis

, p. pr. of

integrare

to make whole, renew: cf. F.

intégrant

. See

Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral.

Boyle.

All these are

integrant

parts of the republic.

Burke.

Integrant parts

, or

Integrant particles

of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.

Adj.

Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing.

Integrant particles of bodies, are those into which bodies are reduced by solution or mechanical division, as distinct from elementary particles.