integrate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integrātus, perfect participle of integrō (“I make whole, I renew, I repair, I begin again”), from integer (“whole, fresh”); see integer, integral.

verb

1. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
2. To include as a constituent part or functionality.
   They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance.
3. To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
4. (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.
5. To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
   The refugees were well integrated into the community.
   I continued on the bus without him. It worked out fine. I went on to Tampa, Fla. That was the first time we integrated the buses. All the way down, sitting in the front row. 2020-07-18, Bernard Lafayette Jr., “The First Time John Lewis and I Integrated the Buses”, in New York Times
6. (genetics) To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.