Noun: integer
| Singular | integer |
| Plural | integers |
Sample Sentences
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God made the integers; all else is the work of man [1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:]
Nouns inflected like integer
integer,
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *n̥tagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and entire. Related to English tact, thack, and thwack. See: Latin Nouns '
integer', English Nouns '
tact'.