Definition:Integral
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Integral may refer to:
- Analysis:
- Integral Calculus
- Definite Integral
- Indefinite Integral
- Integral: As a synonym for the term solution to a differential equation.
Linguistic Note
The word integral has the following meanings in mathematics:
- From the term integral calculus, where it is defined as the subfield of calculus concerned with the rates at which quantities accumulate
- The adjectival form of the word integer, which is in generally deprecated on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ as much as practical in favour of using the word integer itself as an adjective
- In abstract algebra, where it arises in the concept of an integral domain.
In all of the above, the word is pronounced in-te-gral.
In natural language, the adjective integral, meaning necessary or inherent, usually encountered in rhetoric.
When used in this context, its pronunciation is in-teg-ral, the stress being on the second syllable.