Word of the Day: Integer

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- Integer -

pronounced [in-ti-jer]

noun

1. Mathematics. one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero.

2. a complete entity.

Origin

1508, "whole, entire" (adj.), from L. integer "whole," lit. "intact, untouched," from in- "not" + root of tangere "to touch" (see tangent). Noun meaning "a whole number" (opposed to fraction) first recorded 1571.

Synonyms
1. whole numer; 2. integral, whole

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