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intergrate

intergrate is the misconstruction of integrate.

Meaning of integrate

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

See all 9 meanings of integrate

Forms of intergrate

third-person singular presentintergrates
present participleintergrating
past participleintergrated
pastintergrated

Origin of intergrate

As if starting with the prefix inter- (“between, amid”).

Questions about intergrate

What is intergrate the misconstruction of?
Intergrate is the misconstruction of integrate.

Words near intergrate in the dictionary

  1. intergrain
  2. intergranular
  3. intergranularly
  4. intergranule
  5. intergranulomatous
  6. intergrate
  7. intergrated
  8. intergrates
  9. intergrating
  10. intergration
  11. intergraven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intergrate (page history and authors); integrate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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