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Webster 1913 Edition
Integral
1.
Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
A local motion keepeth bodies
integral
. Bacon.
2.
Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.
Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great
integral
parts that complete this duty. South.
3.
(Math.)
(a)
Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional.
(b)
Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration;
as, the
. integral
calculusIntegral calculus
. See under
Calculus
.In′te-gral
,Noun.
1.
A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
2.
(Math.)
An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential
Differential
, and Integration
. Cf. Fluent
. Elliptic integral
, one of an important class of integrals, occurring in the higher mathematics; – so called because one of the integrals expresses the length of an arc of an ellipse.
Webster 1828 Edition
Integral
IN'TEGRAL
,Adj.
A local motion keepeth bodies integral.
1.
Making part of a whole, or necessary to make a whole.2.
Not fractional.3.
Uninjured; complete; not defective.IN'TEGRAL
,Noun.