integrating

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of integrate.

   The company is integrating its software with several outside services.

   Integrating newcomers into established communities takes patience and time.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every meaning of integrate, so context decides which one is at work: a mathematician integrating a function, a firm integrating new features, a city integrating its schools. In the 'fit in' meaning it often takes a reflexive pronoun, as in integrating oneself into a new team, or no object at all, as in newcomers slowly integrating. As a gerund it can head a sentence: Integrating the data took weeks.

2. 2
   adjective

   Serving to combine or unify separate elements into a single whole.

   She took on an integrating role, linking the design and engineering teams.

   The treaty acted as an integrating mechanism for the region's economies.

   Similarunifying

   Oppositedivisive

   Note

   An adjective that classifies rather than grades: a role or mechanism is integrating or it is not, so more integrating and very integrating sound wrong. To tell it from the participle, look for an object. In integrating the teams, the verb is at work on something. In an integrating force, the word simply names a kind of force.

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