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[in-ti-gruhl, in-teg-ruhl] / ˈɪn tɪ grəl, ɪnˈtɛg rəl /




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After joining Forest from Newcastle United in 2024 for £35m, Anderson became an integral player as the club finished seventh in the Premier League and qualified for Europe for the first time in 30 years.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

When you’ve had a smartphone for most of your life, it becomes an integral part of how you work, said Lindsay Boccardo, a career coach who works with Gen Z employees specifically.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

“With one hand I would teach a complicated integral, and with the other hand I’m teaching them how to write a solution to a simple linear equation like 7x − 5 = 9,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

They hope that by winning startups as customers early in the life of new companies, their tools will become integral to the venture’s growth over time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The church was an integral part of British society, and it dictated the rules of the class-ordered society that they all lived in.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

These integrals help determine which excited-state relaxation pathways are favored and steer the system toward efficient triplet energy migration.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Calculations involving proton vibrational wavefunction overlap integrals supported this interpretation.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

For decades, researchers have depended on indirect computational techniques such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations to estimate configurational integrals.

From Science Daily Mar. 15, 2026

That produces a set of differential equations relating all of the master integrals.

From Science Magazine Nov. 30, 2022

“Yeah! Susie herself. That robot’s a mathematical wiz. He knows all about everything plus a bit on the side. He does triple integrals in his head and eats up tensor analysis for dessert.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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