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integer
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and entire. Related to English tact, thack, and thwack.
Pronunciation
Noun
integer (plural integers or (rare) integri)
- (arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
- 1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:
Synonyms
- whole number, when understood to include negative numbers and zero.
- integral number
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a number that is not a fraction
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Further reading
- “integer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “integer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Adjective
integer (comparative integerder, superlative integerst)
- honest, trustworthy, having integrity
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Pronunciation
Adjective
integer (strong nominative masculine singular integerer, comparative integrer, superlative am integersten)
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