Integer and Integration

noun

• Any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero.
  • usage: "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
  • synonyms: whole number

(n.) A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

noun

• The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.
  • synonyms: integrating, desegregation
• The act of combining into an integral whole.
  • usage: "a consolidation of two corporations"; "after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously"; "the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them"
  • synonyms: consolidation
• An operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined. .

• (n.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.
• (n.) In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
• (n.) The act or process of making whole or entire.

INTEGRATION is a term that describes the degree in, and to, which one given company participates in all phases of the petroleum industry.

(DoD) In force protection, the synchronized transfer of units into an operational commander's force prior to mission execution.
(DoD) The arrangement of military forces and their actions to create a force that operates by engaging as a whole.
(DoD) In photography, a process by which the average radar picture seen on several scans of the time base may be obtained on a print, or the process by which several photographic images are combined into a single image. See also force protection.