integral
adjective
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necessaryandimportantas apartof awhole:
构成整体所必需的He's an integralpartof theteamand we can't do without him.他是球队不可缺少的一员，没有他我们可不行。
Bars andterracecafésare integraltothesociallifeof thecity.酒吧和露天咖啡座是这个城市社交生活不可缺少的一部分。
UK
containedwithin something; notseparate:
内置的Allroomshave aflat-screenTV with integral DVD-player.所有房间都装有内置DVD播放机的平板电视。
The integralgaragehad beenconvertedto make anotherbedroom.内置车库被改造成了另一个卧室。
Essential or necessary
- basically
- basis
- be a question ofdoing somethingidiom
- box ticking
- business-critical
- dependence
- elemental
- if need beidiom
- if/when push comes to shoveidiom
- incumbent
- indispensable
- inhere insomething
- necessity
- need
- needed
- needful
- non-discretionary
- owe
- symbiotically
- warrant
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
integral
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡrəl/us/ˈɪn.t̬ə.ɡrəl/mathematicsspecialized
anumberorfunctionthat gives theareaunder acurveon agraphbetween twopoints:
Theprocessoffindingintegrals is calledintegration.
Weknowthat thederivativeof x2is 2x, so an integral of 2x is x2.
Compare
derivative
- Finding an integral is thereverseoffindingaderivative.
- The integrals are veryeasytocompute.
- Thecomputingofprobabilitiesinmultidimensionalspacesis a very hardprobleminmathematics, beingexpressedbymultipleintegrals.
Calculations & calculating
- algebraic
- algebraically
- algo
- algorithmic
- amount
- calculator
- count
- decimal system
- formula
- interpolate
- matrix
- multigrid
- multigroup
- multipole
- non-commutative
- non-commutativity
- number-crunching
- QED
- root
- triangulation