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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to integration.
  • adjective Tending or serving to integrate.
  • adjective Relating to a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to medicine that combines conventional treatments with alternative therapies such as homeopathy or naturopathy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tending to integrate or complete; conducive to integration or the formation of a whole.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.
  • adjective centralizing(prenominal). Opposite of decentralizing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective sciences Tending toward or promoting integration

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole
  • adjective tending to consolidate

Etymologies

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integrate +‎ -ive

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  • Not integrated into any lists...

    May 2, 2009