integer
nounCA, US [ˈɪn.tʰə.d͡ʒɚ] · /ˈɪn.tɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *n̥tagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and entire. Related to English tact, thack, and thwack.
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Arithmetic A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
- God made the integers; all else is the work of man1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:
- Synonyms
- whole number, when understood to include negative numbers and zero, integral number
- Derived terms
- Blum integer, Cartan integer, Eisenstein integer, half-integer, half-integral, hyperinteger, integer factorization, integerness, long integer, noninteger, non-integer
- Hypernyms
- real number, rational number, algebraic number, algebraic integer, quadratic integer, Gaussian integer
- Hyponyms
- natural number, zero