Other forms: integrated, integrating, integrates
To integrate is to bring separate parts together so that they work as one. Integrate two systems, integrate a new team, integrate the changes into the plan.
It has a social sense that carries a great deal of weight: to integrate people is to bring them fully into a society rather than keeping them apart, and integration and its opposite, segregation, are among the central words of twentieth-century civil rights. In technology it is the everyday word for making software talk to other software, and an integration is a specific connection. Mathematics uses integrate for the operation opposite to differentiation, which shares only the idea of putting parts together into a whole.
1verbintegrateTo combine separate things so they work as one.
“The two systems were integrated over a weekend.”
2verbbringTo bring people fully into a group or society.
“The school works hard to integrate new arrivals.”
3verbbecomeTo become part of a group.
“He integrated quickly and was on the committee within a year.”
integrate is a way of joining into a whole.
Latin integrare meant to make whole, from integer, untouched or entire — in- plus tangere, to touch, so literally untouched. Integer, integrity and entire are all the same word, and integrity is still exactly what the Latin says: being whole and unbroken.
Latin
integrātus
Middle English
integrat — intact, whole
English, today
integrate
Built from
1450's as an adjective, 1638 as a verb; from Middle English integrat (“intact, whole”), borrowed from Latin integrātus, perfect passive participle of integrō (“to make whole, renew, repair, begin again”) (see -ate and -ate), from integer (“whole, fresh”) + -ō. See integer and integral.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA