Integral /(?)/

In·te·gral

Integral

a.
  1. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
    A local motion keepeth bodies integral.
  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.
  3. Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional. (Math.)

Phrases & Compounds
Integral calculus
See under Calculus.

Integral

n.
  1. A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
  2. An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent. (Math.)

Phrases & Compounds
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.