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Definition
an essential part or characteristicLess commonly, Integral can refer to something that is contained within something else; or be used to refer to completeness, to integers, and to mathematical integration.
- That was before China became an integral part of the world economy.
integral = essential
- Coaching is integral to her leadership style.
- The National Guard is an integral part of U.S. armed services.
- He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- Though she doesn't drink, her presence is an integral part of the Friday night rituals.August Wilson -- Fences
- I believe they are also an integral part of these programs, both school-based and law enforcement.Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- Elliot's been an integral part of everything.Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
- An investigation is already under way to sort out an integral part of this mess.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- He was a stript abstract; an unfractioned integral; uncompromised as a new-born babe; living without premeditated reference to this world or the next.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- They have to be: they are an integral part of it.Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
- Every one of our employees at Duck Commander had an integral role in getting the company to where it is today.Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
- It filled her whole soul, had become an integral part of herself, and she no longer struggled against it.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- My parents made visits to Disney World an integral part of their volunteer work.Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
- Making love indeed became an integral part of our couplehood.Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- He looks at it, pursing his lips into a thin line, and runs his hand across the wobbly cover-Theory and Problems of Differential and Integral Calculus.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- It had become an integral part of my strategy in defending him that I get him laughing at the opening tips and keep him giggling to the final whistle.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Though he was by no means an integral part of the stag-lines at these clubs, he managed to be on hand at dances where Judy Jones was likely to appear.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams
- The executive magistrate forms an integral part of the legislative authority.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- They are a part of life here, just as integral to my initiation as learning to fight.Veronica Roth -- Divergent
integral = an essential characteristic
integral = essential
integral = necessary
integral = an essential part or characteristic
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