integrate

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to mix with and join society or a group of people, often changing to suit their way of life, habits, and customs:

He seems to find it difficult to integrate socially.

It's very difficult to integrate yourself into a society whose culture is so different from your own.

integrate into Children are often very good at integrating into a new culture.

to combine two or more things in order to become more effective:

integrate something into something You need to integrate exercise into your normal life.

integrate something with something The idea with young children is to integrate learning with play.

to calculate the integral of a function:

This step-by-step maths tutorial takes you through integrating a function.

Try integrating cos(x) with different start and end values.

to end the separation of people by race, sex, national origin, etc., in an organization or in society:

Until President Truman integrated the armed forces in 1948, African-American soldiers served in segregated army units.

To integrate is also to combine two or more things to make something more effective:

We were taught how to integrate computer use into normal classroom procedures.

to combine two or more things into one:

integrate sth with sth We're planning to integrate the sales department with the marketing department.

integrate sth into sth We need to develop an online shopping application and integrate it into our website.

to become part of a group of people:

Her work's good and she seems to have integrated socially.

integrate sb into sth Our induction program helps new staff members to integrate themselves into the team.

integrate with sth Dave seems to be finding it hard to integrate with his colleagues.