Compulsory vs Integral - What's the difference?
compulsory | integral |
Required; obligatory; mandatory.
* 1827 , A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , A. and C. Black, page 212:
* 1996 , (Ugo Pagano), Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise , page 73:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Something that is compulsory or required.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=The Associated Press, title=French Victory in Ice Dance, work=New York Times
, passage=Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance. }}
Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable
* South
(mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or being an integer.
(mathematics) Relating to integration.
(obsolete) whole; undamaged
* Francis Bacon
(mathematics) A number, the limit of the sums computed in a process in which the domain of a function is divided into small subsets and a possibly nominal value of the function on each subset is multiplied by the measure of that subset, all these products then being summed.
(mathematics)
As an adjective compulsory
is required; obligatory; mandatory.As a noun compulsory
is something that is compulsory or required.As an initialism integral is
(space|esa) (a satellite of the european space agency).compulsory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
- Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Synonyms
* mandatoryAntonyms
* (required) optionalNoun
(compulsories)citation
integral
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty.
- A local motion keepeth bodies integral .
Synonyms
* (constituting a whole) immanent, inherent, necessaryDerived terms
* integral brick * integral closure * integral cosmology * integral cuboid * integral current * integral curvature * integral curve * integral domain * integral drawing * integral ecology * integral element * integral energy * integral extension * integral fast reactor * integral field unit * integral function * integral geometry * integral graph * integral homology group * integral kernel * integral membrane protein * integral politics * integral polygedron * integral polynomial * integral post-metaphysics * integral psychology * integral transformative practice * integral yoga * integrityNoun
(wikipedia integral) (en noun)- The integral of on is .
- The integral of is plus a constant.