integrate

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 5.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To include as a constituent part or functionality.

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

2. verb To join a group or an environment harmoniously; to make oneself fit in.

   The refugees integrated well into the community.

3. verb To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
4. verb To give the sum or total of a varying quantity over an interval such as a period of time or an area.
5. verb To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
6. verb To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.

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

7. verb To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
8. adjective composite

Similar words

incorporate mix desegregate integration subsume unify consolidate unite combine merge

Often followed by

the into them with and their these a it all

Word family

integrated integrates integrating integration