integral

  1. Adjective.  Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable.
  2. Adjective.  (mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or being an integer.
  3. Noun.  A number, the limit of the sums computed in a process in which the domain of a function is divided into small subsets and a possibly nominal value of the function on each subset is multiplied by the measure of that subset, all these products then being summed.
  4. Noun.  Antiderivative.

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