integrate

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “integrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

First attested in the 1450's as an adjective, first attested in 1638 as a verb; from Middle English integrat(e) (“intact, whole”), borrowed from Latin integrātus, perfect passive participle of integrō (“to make whole, renew, repair, begin again”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from integer (“whole, fresh”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See integer and integral.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹeɪt/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.təˌɡɹeɪt/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹæɪt/

Verb

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

(transitive) To include as a constituent part or functionality.
They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.
- 2004, Tammy Ravas, Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN:
  All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.
- 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 9, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
  Along the way, companies such as Facebook and Google employ every useful foot soldier, including social scientists such as Kogan who are willing to put their shoulders to the wheel as they help the company learn, perfect, and integrate the cutting-edge methods that can conquer the next frontier
- 2024 September 23, Vanessa Montalbano, “Air Force interested in advanced booster for hypersonic weapons”, in Inside Defense‎:
  Vendors must also describe to the Air Force whether they have experience integrating the device with payloads from other businesses, if they are capable of supporting flight test operations and working with ground support equipment and how soon the capability can be delivered.
(usually intransitive, sometimes reflexive) To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.
The refugees integrated well into the community.

The eco-friendly building integrates with the forest around it.
(transitive) To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
- 1990 04, Richard M. Linchitz, Life Without Pain, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN:
  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.
(mathematics, sciences, transitive) To give the sum or total of a varying quantity over an interval such as a period of time or an area.
- 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, page 696:
  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.
(mathematics, sciences, transitive) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
- 2014 May 10, Stanley I. Grossman, Calculus of One Variable, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 469:
  As Example 9 indicates, we can integrate sinⁿ x if we know how to integrate sin^n-2 x.
(transitive) To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
Antonym: segregate

President Eisenhower had to call out the National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
- 1999, Nelson George, Hip Hop America, page 84:
  That's because this place is racist, but also because most black filmmakers don't have an interest in integrating. They've accepted the premise that they must stay in their lane
- 2020 July 18, Bernard Lafayette Jr., “The First Time John Lewis and I Integrated the Buses”, in New York Times‎:
  I continued on the bus without him. It worked out fine. I went on to Tampa, Fla. That was the first time we integrated the buses. All the way down, sitting in the front row.
(genetics, transitive) To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.