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ˈintegrated, ppl. a. [f. integrate v., or f. L. integrāt-us ppl. a., integrate + -ed.] a. Combined into a whole; united; undivided. Also of a personality in which the component elements combine harmoniously.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1613) 571 A certaine Pulchra puella profecto elected and constituted by the integrated determination of all this topographical region. a1661Fuller Worthies, Lancashire ii. (1662) 120 The integrated and incorporate Rector unto whom the parsonage was appropriated. 1847H. Rogers Ess. I. v. 262 The mind..cannot comprehend them at a glance, and feel at once their integrated force, but must examine them in detail by successive acts of mind. 1941Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 298 Among the individuals studied..it was possible to distinguish..integrated personalities, in which conflicting drives had been reconciled and were now functioning in harmony with each other. 1945Psychol. Rev. LII. 65/2 Later we shall see that an integrated personality does indeed have a kind of ‘autonomy’ which gives it a certain limited immunity to the Law of Effect. 1950O. H. Mowrer Learning Theory & Personality Dynamics i. ii. 59 When, however, opposing impulses are more nearly matched, the submerged one is likely to exert its influence..by diminishing the smoothness and efficiency of the main stream of integrated behavior. 1954G. W. Allport Nature of Prejudice v. xx. 339 What vanishes in an integrated personality are the racial bogies and traditional scapegoats who have nothing, really, to do with life's woes. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex v. 48 Idealism can be a sign of spontaneous and selfless devotion in an integrated personality. 1973Lancet 24 Feb. 441/2 The plaintiff was well integrated and had learned to live with the problem. b. Uniting in one system several constituents previously regarded as separate; integrated circuit, a small unit or package which is made as a single indivisible structure (such as a chip) and is electrically equivalent to a conventional circuit of many separate components.
1947F. C. Simmons in Jrnl. Forestry XLV. 347/2 At the roadside, or at the using plant, the electric chain-saw, or one of the highly efficient circular-saw cutting-up plants,..can divide these tree lengths into raw material for the products to which they are best suited. This type of logging, which we call ‘integrated logging’ should result in higher returns from the logging job. 1954Webster Add., Integrated logging, a system of logging planned to remove in one cutting all usable timber and to separate the primary products and distribute them to industries where they will bring the highest returns. 1958J. T. Wellmark in Aviation Age Res. & Devel. Technical Handbk. 1958–1959 F-6/1 One promising technique uses the ‘integrated electronic device’ concept. Ibid., The true ‘integrated device’ can do the jobs of both active and passive components. 1959IRE Trans. Electronic Computers VIII. 103/1 Some specific examples of integrated logic circuits..are shown in the figures below. 1962Electronics, Reliability & Microminiaturization I. 184/1 In integrated circuits the [circuit] element may be a region in a block of the material rather than a separate device. 1962A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control x. 96 Looking ahead in the field of Integrated Data Processing, we can foresee the situation in which the machine will prepare the advice note and invoice, classify and analyse the sales, calculate ROL and ROQ for each item and go on to send out orders automatically. 1964Times Rev. Industry Apr. 49/2 It will be an integrated mill—trees will go in one end and fine paper will emerge from the other. 1967Times Rev. Industry Mar. 46/1 Where once the circuit designer had to employ comparatively large components mounted on some sort of backing sheet..now he can often put in an integrated circuit, in which the separate components are commonly created in miniscule form on the surface of thin wafers of silicon by complex processing. 1969A. C. Tickle Thin-Film Transistors i. 3 The first advanced all-thin-film integrated circuit, in which both active and passive devices were produced by thin-film deposition techniques, was produced by Weimer in 1965. It was designed for scanning an image sensor and contained 360 thin-film transistors, 180 diodes, 360 resistors, and 180 capacitors. 1970F. C. Fitchen et al. Electronic Integrated Circuits i. 4 The monolithic integrated circuit is an IC whose [circuit] elements are formed in situ upon or within a semiconductor substrate with at least one of the elements formed within the substrate... In a multichip integrated circuit, the elements are formed on or within two or more semiconductor chips that are separately attached to a substrate. 1970‘J. Earl’ Tuners & Amplifiers i. 16 The majority of Class B and Class AB amplifiers..are of the so-called ‘integrated’ kind. This means that the preamplifiers and control unit..are built into the same housing—usually on the same chassis—as the power amplifiers and that a common power supply feeds both sections. 1973Physics Bull. May 297/3 The continual recurrence of the same names in different fields of study is..in no way to be confused with, or used to justify, the contemporary rush to some illusory ‘integrated science’ concept. c. Of institutions, groups, etc., which are not divided by considerations based on race or culture (see integrate v. 2 b).
1948Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch 5 Aug. 1/8 This will be an integrated rather than a segregated operation. 1956N.Y. Times 1 Oct., Approximately 2,400,000 Negro and 6,500,000 white pupils remained in segregated classes. Integrated school districts numbered 780; segregated numbered 3,000. 1958Newsweek 29 Sept. 22 (title) Integrated schools or none. 1959Spectator 11 Sept. 319/1 The newly integrated junior high school at Little Rock re⁓opened, but not before three bombs had gone off. 1965B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irreg. vi. 167 My assignment at A.F.H.Q. was with the planners. It was my first introduction to a really integrated staff... It was difficult to have a word in private with any of the British members of it because it was a rule that Americans and British should share rooms. 1974Times 14 Jan. 12/4 Southern schools are now more integrated than their northern counterparts.
Add:[b.] integrated services digital network, a telecommunications network through which sound, images, and data can all be transmitted as digitized signals; abbrev. ISDN.
1974Internat. Conf. Communications (Inst. Electr. & Electronic Engineers) 33e-1 An integrated services digital network (ISDN) is a network in which the various services such as telephony, data and telex use the same switching and transmission facilities. 1981Electronics 6 Oct. 176/2 This capability lets manufacturers and operators interconnect equipment at different hierarchical levels to form..an integrated services digital network. 1991H. Rheingold Virtual Reality iii. xi. 244 The central idea of an Integrated Services Digital Network..is simple: all forms of signals..now can be reduced to digital form and sent as bits..over very wide networks. 1993Computer Weekly 25 Mar. 21/3 The Post Office is to provide Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) services to its internal business users. |