a. [ Gr. &unr_; gill + &unr_; to cover: cf. F. branchiostège. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. -- n. (Anat.) A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term was formerly applied to a group of fishes having boneless branchiæ. But the arrangement was artificial, and has been rejected. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Anat.) The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Branchiostegal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of climbing or scrambling herbs; bindweed.
Syn. -- genus Calystegia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; predicate. See Category. ] (Logic.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a category. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. placed in a category. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Categories [ L. categoria, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to accuse, affirm, predicate; &unr_; down, against + &unr_; to harrangue, assert, fr. &unr_; assembly. ] 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. [ 1913 Webster ]

The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ F., fr. It. corteggio train, fr. corte court. See Court. ] A train of attendants; a group following and attending to some important person.
Syn. -- retinue, suite, entourage. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a procession, especially a funeral procession following the casket carrying a dead person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. deintegrare to impair; de- + integrare to make whole. ] To disintegrate. [ Obs. ]

a. Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disintegrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disintegrating. ] [ L. dis- + integratus, p. p. of integrare to renew, repair, fr. integer entire, whole. See Integer. ] To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically (b) (Geol.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mech.) A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gastro- + Gr. &unr_; roof. ] (Zool.) One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_; a roof. ] (Zool.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Homo- + categoric. ] (Biol.) Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. integer untouched, whole, entire. See Entire. ] A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number. [ 1913 Webster ]

Complex integer (Theory of Numbers), an expression of the form a + b√-1, where a and b are real integers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Math.) The quality of being integrable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Math.) Capable of being integrated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. intégral. See Integer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. [ 1913 Webster ]

A local motion keepeth bodies integral. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) (a) Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional. (b) Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Integral calculus. See under Calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. intégralité. ] Entireness. [ Obs. ] Whitaker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. integrans, -antis, p. pr. of integrare to make whole, renew: cf. F. intégrant. See Integrate. ] Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Integrant parts, or
Integrant particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Integrated p. pr. & vb. n. Integrating ] [ L. integratus, p. p. of integrare to make whole, renew: cf. F. intégrer. See Integer, Entire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect. “That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious empire.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two distinct substances, the soul and body, go to compound and integrate the man. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Formed or united into a whole.
Syn. -- incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Formed into a whole or introduced into another entity; as, an integrated Europe. Opposite of nonintegrated. [ Narrower terms: coordinated, interconnected, unified; embedded; incorporated; tight-knit, tightly knit ]

a more closely integrated economic and political system Dwight D. Eisenhower [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. Having different groups treated together as equals in one group; as, racially integrated schools. [ Narrower terms: co-ed, coeducational; desegrated, nonsegregated, unsegregated; interracial; mainstreamed ] Also See: integrative, joint, united. Antonym: segregated. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

4. Resembling a living organism in organization or development. [ Narrower terms: organic (vs. inorganic) ]
Syn. -- structured. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. combined. Opposite of uncombined. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

6. having constituent parts mixed to form a single unit. Opposite of unmixed. [ Narrower terms: blended[ 2 ] ]
Syn. -- amalgamated, intermingled, mixed. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.
Syn. -- integration, desegregation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. integratio a renewing, restoring: cf. F. intégration. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of making whole or entire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The symbol of integration is ∫ (standing for the Latin summa sum), and the integral is also regarded as the limiting value of the sum of great numbers of differentials, when the magnitude of the differentials decreases, and their number increases indefinitely. See Limit, n. When the summation is made between specified values of the variable, the result is a definite integral, and those values of the variable are the limits of the integral. When the summation is made successively for two or more variables, the result is a multiple integral. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole. [ Narrower terms: consolidative, unifying; plastic ) ] Also See: collective, combinative, integrated. Antonym: disintegrative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. centralizing(prenominal). Opposite of decentralizing.
Syn. -- consolidative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Math. & Mech.) That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. integritas: cf. F. intégrité. See Integer, and cf. Entirety. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale.

Syn. -- Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. integer whole + E. pallial. ] (Zool.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Integument. ] That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. integumentum, fr. integere to cover; pref. in- in, on + tegere to cover: cf. F. intégument. See 1st n-, and Tegument. ] That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Belonging to, or composed of, integuments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not integrated. Opposite of integrated.
Syn. -- unintegrated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Omo- + Gr. &unr_; a roof. ] (Zool.) The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; a roof. ] (Zool.) One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Portague. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖n. m. ‖n. f. } [ F., p. p. of protéger. See Protect. ] One under the care and protection of another, especially one receiving counseling and assistance in career development. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

a. [ L. redintegratus, p. p. of redintegrare to restore; pref. red-, re-, re- + integrare to make whole, to renew, fr. integer whole. See Integer. ] Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again? Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. redintegratio. ] 1. Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. [ Achaic. ] Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Psychology) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]