INTEGRAL

INTEGRAL

The European Space Agency's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory is an operational Earth satellite, launched in 2002 for detecting some of the most energetic radiation that comes from space. It is the most sensitive gamma ray observatory ever launched.

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Integral

Integral is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and many other areas regarding a comprehensive synthesizing transdisciplinary framework or multidimensional perspective to a given field. The term is often combined with others such as approach, consciousness, culture, paradigm, philosophy, society, theory, and worldview. Major themes of this range of philosophies and teachings include a synthesis of science and religion, evolutionary spirituality, and holistic programs of ...

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integral

Noun

  1. 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.
    The integral of <math>x\mapsto x^2</math> on <math>1</math> is <math>\frac{1}{3}</math>.
  2. Antiderivative
    The integral of <math>x^2</math> is <math>\frac{x^3}{3}</math> plus a constant.

Adjective

  1. Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable
  2. Of, pertaining to, or being an integer.
  3. Relating to integration.
  4. whole; undamaged


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