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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Integral

/ĭn-tĕgʹrəl/ · In·te·gral · IPA /ˈɪntəɡɹəl/
01 a. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
  1. 1.
    Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
    “A local motion keepeth bodies integral.” — Bacon.
  2. 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.” — South.
  3. 3.
    Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional.(Math.)
Phrases & compounds
Integral calculus — See under Calculus.
02 n. A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
  1. 1.
    A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
  2. 2.
    An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent.(Math.) See: Differential, Integration, Fluent
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.