integer

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”, literally “untouched”), from in + tangere (“to touch”). Doublet of entire. See tangere, tact. Related to English thack and thwack.

noun

  1. (arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
    God made the integers; all else is the work of man . 1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung

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