integral
adjective
• necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental.
• "games are an integral part of the school's curriculum"
Similar:
essential,
fundamental,
basic,
intrinsic,
inherent,
constitutive,
innate,
structural,
vital,
indispensable,
necessary,
requisite,
• of or denoted by an integer.
integral
noun
• a function of which a given function is the derivative, i.e. which yields that function when differentiated, and which may express the area under the curve of a graph of the function.
Origin:
mid 16th century: from late Latin integralis, from integer ‘whole’ (see integer). Compare with integrate and integrity.
