Meaning & use
integral
Essential or necessary for completeness; forming a fundamental part of a whole.
See it in a sentence
Trust is integral to any long-term business partnership between two companies.
Regular practice is integral to learning a musical instrument well.
A note on using this word
Integral is usually followed by 'to,' not 'for': something is integral to a plan, not integral for it.
Words with a similar meaning
essentialfundamental
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Words with an opposite meaning
peripheraloptional
Another way to use it
2. noun
In calculus, a mathematical expression representing the area under a curve or the accumulation of a quantity.
Students learned to calculate the integral of the function over a given interval.
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