Integrate

Quick meaning: Integrate is a verb meaning (transitive) To include as a constituent part or functionality.

Meaning

(transitive) To include as a constituent part or functionality.

More Meanings

1. (usually intransitive, sometimes reflexive) To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.
2. (transitive) To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
3. (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.
4. (mathematics, sciences, transitive) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
5. (transitive) To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
6. (genetics, transitive) To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
7. (obsolete) composite

Example Sentences

The refugees integrated well into the community.

The eco-friendly building integrates with the forest around it.

They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.

All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.

Word Forms

• integrates
• integrating
• integrated

Synonyms for integrate

Depending on context, synonyms include embody, fuse, merge, assimilate, incorporate, swallow.

Antonyms for integrate

Common opposites include disintegrate, divide, extract, segregate, unincorporate, differentiate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incorporate, mix, desegregate, integration, subsume, unify.

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