integrate

/ˈɪntɪɡreɪt/

verb

  1. To combine two or more things so that they form a whole or work together.

    B1

    transitive or intransitive

    • "The school integrates art into its science lessons."B1
    • "The new software integrates several tools into one system."B1
    • "The team is working to integrate its research with existing data."B2

  2. To become, or make someone become, a full member of a group or society and take part in its activities.

    B2

    intransitive or transitive; often used with “into” or “with”

    • "She found it easy to integrate into her new school."B1
    • "It can take years for immigrants to integrate into a new community."B2

  3. In mathematics, to find the integral of a function or calculate a total by adding small parts.

    C2

    transitivetechnical

    • "You can integrate this function using the substitution method."C2
    • "Students learn to integrate polynomial functions in calculus."C2

Common mistakes

  • integrate with together→integrate

    "Integrate" already means to combine into a whole; "together" is redundant.

  • integrate to→integrate into

    Use "into" for the whole that something becomes part of, and "with" for the thing it is combined with.

Collocations

integrate into societyintegrate with existing systemsintegrate seamlesslyintegrate dataintegrate by partsfully integrateintegrate technologyintegrate with

Word family

integrationintegratedintegrativeintegratordisintegratereintegrate