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Found 3 hits - Term: integral calculus, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
integral \in"tegral\, a. cf. f. int'egral. see integer.
   1913 webster
   1. lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect;
      uninjured; whole; entire.
      1913 webster

            a local motion keepeth bodies integral. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. essential to completeness; constituent, as a part;
      pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.
      1913 webster

            ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two
            great integral parts that complete this duty.
                                                  --south.
      1913 webster

   3. math.
      a of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or
          undivided quantity; not fractional.
      b pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the
          integral calculus.
          1913 webster

   integral calculus. see under calculus.
      1913 webster
see also:
integer integral calculus calculus 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
calculus \cal"culus\, n.; pl. calculi. l, calculus. see
   calculate, and calcule.
   1. med. any solid concretion, formed in any part of the
      body, but most frequent in the organs that act as
      reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as,
      biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
      1913 webster

   2. math. a method of computation; any process of reasoning
      by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may
      involve calculation.
      1913 webster

   barycentric calculus, a method of treating geometry by
      defining a point as the center of gravity of certain other
      points to which co"efficients or weights are ascribed.
      

   calculus of functions, that branch of mathematics which
      treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given
      conditions.

   calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic
      that treats of all operations that satisfy given
      conditions.

   calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the
      computation of the probabilities of events, or the
      application of numbers to chance.

   calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics in which
      the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities
      together are themselves subject to change.

   differential calculus, a method of investigating
      mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain
      indefinitely small quantities called differentials. the
      problems are primarily of this form: to find how the
      change in some variable quantity alters at each instant
      the value of a quantity dependent upon it.

   exponential calculus, that part of algebra which treats of
      exponents.

   imaginary calculus, a method of investigating the relations
      of real or imaginary quantities by the use of the
      imaginary symbols and quantities of algebra.

   integral calculus, a method which in the reverse of the
      differential, the primary object of which is to learn from
      the known ratio of the indefinitely small changes of two
      or more magnitudes, the relation of the magnitudes
      themselves, or, in other words, from having the
      differential of an algebraic expression to find the
      expression itself.
      1913 webster
see also:
calculi calculate calcule barycentric calculus calculus of functions calculus of operations 
calculus of probabilities calculus of variations differential calculus exponential calculus imaginary calculus 
integral calculus 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
integral calculus
     n : the part of calculus that deals with integration and its
         application in the solution of differential equations and
         in determining areas or volumes etc.


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