Definition of "integrate" in English

verb

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

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

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

4. (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.

5. (mathematics, sciences, transitive) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.

6. (transitive) To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.

   • President Eisenhower had to call out the National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School.

7. (genetics, transitive) To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.

adjective

1. (obsolete) composite

2. (obsolete) whole, complete, perfect