integrating

Verb

integrate (third-person singular simple present integrates, present participle integrating, simple past and past participle integrated)

1. (transitive) To include as a constituent part or functionality.
   • They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.

   Synonyms:

   assimilate

2. (intransitive, reflexive, sometimes, usually) To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.
   • The refugees integrated well into the community.
3. (transitive) To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
   • Virtually free of pain, she has integrated the broken pieces of her life, is a loving and loved wife and mother, and is back at her job.1990 04, Richard M. Linchitz, Life Without Pain, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   embody

4. (transitive) To give the sum or total of a varying quantity over an interval such as a period of time or an area.
   • Data gathered at each remote site include sulphur dioxide in parts per million, a five-minute integrated wind direction to the nearest degree and a five-minute integrated wind speed to the nearest one-tenth knot.1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, page 696
5. (transitive) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
   • As Example 9 indicates, we can integrate sinⁿ x if we know how to integrate sinⁿ⁻² x.2014 May 10, Stanley I. Grossman, Calculus of One Variable, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 469
6. (transitive) To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
   • President Eisenhower had to call out the National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School.

   Antonyms:

   segregate

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