Definition:Integral/Linguistic Note

Linguistic Note on Integral
The word integral has the following meanings in mathematics:


 * From the term integral calculus, where it is defined as the subfield of calculus concerned with the rates at which quantities accumulate


 * The form of the word integer, which is in generally deprecated on  as much as practical in favour of using the word integer itself as an


 * In abstract algebra, where it arises in the concept of an integral domain.

In all of the above, the word is pronounced in-te-gral.

In natural language, the integral, meaning necessary or inherent, usually encountered in rhetoric.

When used in this context, its pronunciation is in-teg-ral, the stress being on the second syllable.

Also see

 * Definition:Integer/Linguistic Note