A local motion keepeth bodies integral. --Bacon.
2. Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part;
pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.
Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two
great integral parts that complete this duty.
--South.
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.
{Integral calculus}. See under {Calculus}.
2. (Math.) An expression which, being differentiated, will
produce a given differential. See differential
{Differential}, and {Integration}. Cf. {Fluent}.
{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.
2. [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered
as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern
calculus, the {function} or {integral}.