INTEGRAL

a. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. A local motion keepeth bodies integral. Bacon.

2.
a.

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.
a.

Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional.

4.
a.

Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus. Integral calculus. See under Calculus.

5.
n.

A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.

6.
n.

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.