integral

Meanings

Adjective

• Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable
• Of, pertaining to, or being an integer.
• Relating to integration.
• Whole; undamaged.

Noun

• A number, the limit of the sums computed in a process in which the domain of a function is divided into small subsets and a possibly nominal value of the function on each subset is multiplied by the measure of that subset, all these products then being summed.
• A definite integral, a limit of sums.
• Antiderivative

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French integral, from Medieval Latin integrālis, from Latin integer; see integer.