integer
pronunciation
How to pronounce integer in British English:
UK [ˈɪntɪdʒə(r)]
How to pronounce integer in American English:
US [ˈɪntɪdʒɚ]
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- Noun:
- any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
Word Origin
- integer (n.)
- "a whole number" (opposed to fraction), 1570s, from Latin integer (adj.) "whole, complete," figuratively, "untainted, upright," literally "untouched," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + root of tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)). The word was used earlier in English as an adjective meaning "whole, entire" (c. 1500).
Example
- 1. One of the simplest kinds of lisp expression is an integer .
- 2. For example , the compiler will recognize that x = 1 + 3 means that x must be an integer .
- 3. Say you have a 64-bit integer .
- 4. And there 's another problem with likert scales : maybe something about an integer scale itself distorts the survey results ?
- 5. A prime number is an integer greater than or equal to 2 that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors , 1 and itself .