integer

A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.

Noun

  1. A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
    • God made the integers; all else is the work of man - 1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *n̥tagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and entire. Related to English tact, thack, and thwack.

Forms

integers integri

Synonyms

whole number when understood to include negative numbers and zero integral number

Hypernyms

real number rational number algebraic number algebraic integer quadratic integer Gaussian integer

Hyponyms

natural number zero

Related

integral integrate integrity

Derived

Blum integer Cartan integer Eisenstein integer half-integer half-integral hyperinteger integer factorization integerness long integer noninteger non-integer