Examples of “integral” in a Sentence

adj Essential to completeness; a necessary part of a whole.

• Regular practice is integral to learning a musical instrument.
• Trust is integral to any good working relationship.
• The engine is an integral part of the car, not an add-on.

noun In mathematics, the result of the calculus operation that finds the area under a curve or a function's total accumulated value.

• The students learned how to evaluate the integral of a simple polynomial.
• In calculus class, we used an integral to find the total distance traveled.
• She calculated the integral of the function to find the area under the curve.