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Interfere vs Integrate - What's the difference?

interfere | integrate |

As verbs the difference between interfere and integrate

is that interfere is to get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance while integrate is to form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

interfere

English

Alternative forms

* enterfere (obsolete)

Verb

(interfer)
  • To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
  • I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
  • (physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped]] or [[superpose, superposed.
  • Correlated waves interfere''' to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without '''interfering .
    Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.
  • (mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
  • Derived terms

    * interference

    See also

    * busy body * interferometry

    integrate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

  • To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
  • To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
  • (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
  • To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
  • Anagrams

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