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Insulated (ĭns�lātĕd), p. a. 1. Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
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The special and insulated situation of the Jews. De Quincey.
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2. (Elect. & Thermotics) Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity.
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3. (Astron.) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible. C. A. Young.
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Coloq. Insulated wire , wire covered with some nonconducting material, such as plastic or silk, for use in conducting electricity.
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Insulation (?), n. 1. The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
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2. (Elec. & Thermotics) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated.
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3. The material or substance used to insulate from either electrical or thermal conduction; as, fiberglass is used as thermal insulation in the walls and roofs of houses.
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Insulator (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, insulates.
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2. (Elec. & Thermotics) A substance or object that insulates; a nonconductor; as, polyurethane foam is a popular thermal insulator.
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Insulite (?), n. (Elec.) An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.
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Insulous (?), a. [L. insulosus, fr. insula island.] Abounding in islands. [R.]
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Insulse (?), a. [L. insulsus; pref. in- not + salsus salted, fr. salire, salsum, to salt.] Insipid; dull; stupid. [Obs.] Milton.
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Insulsity (?), n. [L. insulsitas.] Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.]
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The insulsity of mortal tongues. Milton.
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Insult (?), n. [L. insultus, fr. insilire to leap upon: cf. F. insulte. See , v. t.]
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1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [Obs.] Dryden.
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2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.
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The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.

3. (Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.
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Syn. -- Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See .
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Insult (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Insulting.] [F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr. insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to leap. See .]
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1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.] Shak.
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2. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
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Insult, v. i. 1. To leap or jump.
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Give me thy knife, I will insult on him. Shak.
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Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king. Jer. Taylor.
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2. To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic]
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The lion being dead, even hares insult. Daniel.
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An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. Landor.
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Insultable (?), a. Capable of being insulted or affronted. [R.] Emerson.
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Insultation (?), n. [L. insultatio, fr. insultare: cf. OF. insultation.]
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1. The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.] Feltham.
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2. Exultation. [Obs.] Is. xiv. (heading).
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Insulter (?), n. One who insults. Shak.
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Insulting, a. Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- Insultingly, adv.

Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See .
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Insultment (?), n. Insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.] “My speech of insultment ended.” Shak.
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Insume (?), v. t. [L. insumere; pre. in- in + sumere to take.] To take in; to absorb. [Obs.]
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Insuperability (?), n. The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
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Insuperable (?), a. [L. insuperabilis: cf. OF. insuperable. See not, and .] Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.
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And middle natures, how they long to join,
Yet never pass the insuperable line? Pope.
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The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. I. Taylor.

Syn. -- Impassable; insurmountable; unconquerable.

-- Insuperableness, n. -- Insuperably, adv.
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Insupportable (?), a. [L. insupportabilis: cf. F. insupportable. See not, and .] Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- Insupportableness, n. -- Insupportably, adv.
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Insupposable (?), a. Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.
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Insuppressible (?), a. That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- Insuppressibly, adv.
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Insuppressive (?), a. Insuppressible. [Obs.] “The insuppressive mettle of our spirits.” Shak.
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Insurable (?), a. [From .] Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured.
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The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. Walsh.
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Insurance (?), n. [From .]
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1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. , n., 6.
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☞ The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is termed the insurer; the danger against which he undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form, the policy. Johnson's Cyc.
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2. The premium paid for insuring property or life.
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3. The sum for which life or property is insured.
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4. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [Obs.]
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The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection. Mickle.
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5. Hence: Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution; as, we always use our seat belts as insurance against injury.
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Coloq. Accident insurance , insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person. -- Coloq. Endowment insurance or Coloq. Endowment assurance , a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also called whole life insurance. -- Coloq. Fire insurance . See under . -- Coloq. Insurance broker , a broker or agent who effects insurance. -- Coloq. Insurance company , a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death. -- Coloq. Insurance policy , a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured. -- Coloq. Life insurance . See under .
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Insurancer (?), n. One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] Dryden.
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hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.
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Insurant (?), n. The person insured, called also the insured. Champness.
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Insure (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Insuring.] [OE. ensuren, prob. for assuren, by a change of prefix. See 1st , and , and cf. , .] [Written also ensure.]
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1. To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.
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2. Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.
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Insure, v. i. To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.
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Insurer (?), n. One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

{ Insurgence (?), Insurgency (?), } n. A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.
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A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot.
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Insurgent (?), a. [L. insurgens, p. pr. of insurgere to rise up; pref. in- in + surgere to rise. See .] Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. “The insurgent provinces.” Motley.
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Insurgent, n. [Cf. F. insurgent.] A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Syn. -- See .
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Insurmountability (?), n. The state or quality of being insurmountable.
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Insurmountable (?), a. [Pref. in- not + surmountable: cf. F. insurmountable.] Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle. Locke.
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Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable. I. Watts.

Syn. -- Insuperable; impassable; invincible.
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Insurmountableness, n. The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability.
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Insurmountably, adv. In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome.
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Insurrection (?), n. [L. insurrectio, fr. insurgere, insurrectum: cf. F. insurrection. See .]
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1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.
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It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra iv. 19.
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2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [Obs.]

Syn. -- , , , , . Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew.
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I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak.
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Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. Bacon.
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He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. Sir W. Raleigh.
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Though of their names in heavenly records now
Be no memorial, blotted out and razed
By their rebellion from the books of life. Milton.
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Insurrectional (?), a. [Cf. F. insurrectionnel.] Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.
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Insurrectionary (?), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.
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Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.
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Insurrectionist, n. One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.
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Insusceptibility (?), n. Lack of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.
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Insusceptible (?), a. [Pref. in- not + susceptible: cf. F. insusceptible.] Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery; new strains of bacteria insusceptible to penicillin. -- Insusceptibly adv.
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Insusceptive (?), a. Not susceptive or susceptible. [R.] Rambler.
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Insusurration (?), n. [L. insusurratio, fr. insusurrare to whisper into.] The act of whispering into something. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Inswathe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inswathed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Inswating.] To wrap up; to infold; to swathe.
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Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.
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Inswept (?), a. Narrowed at the forward end; -- said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.
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Intact (?), a. [L. intactus; pref. in- not + tactus, p. p. of tangere to touch: cf. F. intact. See not, and , .] Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire. Buckle.
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When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

{ Intactible (?), Intactable (?) }, a. Not perceptible to the touch.
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Intagliated (?), a. [It. intagliato, p. p. of intagliare. See .] Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.
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Intaglio (?), n.; pl. E. Intaglius (#), It. Intagli (#). [It., fr. intagliare to engrave, carve; pref. in- in + tagliare to cut, carve. See .] A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.
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Intail, v. t. See , v. t.
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Intake (?), n. 1. The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to outlet.
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2. the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
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3. The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.
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Intaminated (?), a. [L. intaminatus. See .] Uncontaminated. [Obs.] Wood.
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Intangibility (?), n.; pl. Intangibilities (#). [Cf. F. intangibilité.] The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.
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Intangible (?), a. [Pref. in- not + tangible: cf. F. intangible.] Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible. Bp. Wilkins.
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A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being. Marshall.

-- Intangibleness, n. -- Intangibly, adv.
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Intangle (?), v. t. See .
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Intastable (?), a. Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Grew.
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Integer (?), n. [L. integer untouched, whole, entire. See .] A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.
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Coloq. Complex integer (Theory of Numbers), an expression of the form a + b√-1, where a and b are real integers.
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Integrability (?), n. (Math.) The quality of being integrable.
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Integrable (?), a. (Math.) Capable of being integrated.
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Integral (?), a. [Cf. F. intégral. See .]
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1. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
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A local motion keepeth bodies integral. Bacon.
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2. Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.
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Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty. South.
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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.
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Coloq. Integral calculus . See under .
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Integral, n. 1. A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
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2. (Math.) An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential , and . Cf. .
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Coloq. 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.
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Integrality (?), n. [Cf. F. intégralité.] Entireness. [Obs.] Whitaker.
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Integrally (?), adv. In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration.
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Integrant (?), a. [L. integrans, -antis, p. pr. of integrare to make whole, renew: cf. F. intégrant. See .] Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle.
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All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke.
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Coloq. Integrant parts , or Coloq. Integrant particles , of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.
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Integrate (?), 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 , .]
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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.
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Two distinct substances, the soul and body, go to compound and integrate the man. South.
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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.
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3. (Math.) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
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integrated adj. 1. Formed or united into a whole.
Syn. -- incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified.
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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
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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: , , . Antonym: segregated.
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4. Resembling a living organism in organization or development. [Narrower terms: organic (vs. inorganic)]
Syn. -- structured.
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5. combined. Opposite of uncombined.
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6. having constituent parts mixed to form a single unit. Opposite of unmixed. [Narrower terms: blended[2]]
Syn. -- amalgamated, intermingled, mixed.
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integrating n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.
Syn. -- integration, desegregation.
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integrative adj. 1. tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole. [Narrower terms: consolidative, unifying; plastic )] Also See: , , . Antonym: disintegrative.
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2. centralizing(prenominal). Opposite of decentralizing.
Syn. -- consolidative.
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