integer

UK/ˈɪn.tɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/US[ˈɪn.tʰə.d͡ʒɚ]

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,502 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: integers

An integer is a whole number as a program stores it. An integer value, integer division, cast to an integer.

It has no fractional part, and in computing it also has limits — a fixed number of bits means a highest value, and going past it wraps round to the lowest, which has caused real disasters. Integer division throws away the remainder. Note that the Latin means untouched or whole, the same root as entire.

Definitions of integer

1nounintegerA whole number as a program stores it.B2+
“The program crashed because it tried to store a decimal in an integer.”

integer is a number.

Where it comes from

Latin integer means whole or untouched, from in- plus a root meaning to touch. Entire and integrity come from the same wholeness.

Latin
integer
English, today
integer

Borrowed from Latin integer. Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic n̥tagros (“untouched”). a doublet of entier and entire. Related to English tact, thack, and thwack.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Computing & Code

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integer in the wild

Fermions have a half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
Fermion
In contrast, particles with half-integer spin are fermions.
Fermion
An integer is the number zero (0), a positive natural number (1, 2, 3,...), or the negation of a positive natural number.
Integer
The negations or additive inverses of the positive natural numbers are referred to as negative integers.
Integer
In computer science, an integer is a datum of integral data type, a data type that represents some range of mathematical integers.
Integer (computer science)

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the integer family

entire

integer — used about once every 23,598 pages · #13,502 · point at the bar for the others

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