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INTEGRITY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moral soundness

Example:

they admired his scrupulous professional integrity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("integrity" is a kind of...):

honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "integrity"):

probity (complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles)

Holonyms ("integrity" is a part of...):

character; fiber; fibre (the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

Example:

he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia

Synonyms:

integrity; unity; wholeness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("integrity" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Attribute:

broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split)

unbroken (not broken; whole and intact; in one piece)

whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)

fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "integrity"):

completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)

incompleteness; rawness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)

Credits

 Context examples: 

This allele, which encodes DNA-(apurinic or apyrimidinic site) lyase protein, is involved in DNA repair and the maintenance of DNA integrity.

(APEX1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes mitotic checkpoint serine/threonine-protein kinase BUB1 protein, is involved in the regulation of spindle checkpoints and mitotic integrity.

(BUB1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

By preventing crosslinking of peptidoglycan, cell wall integrity is lost and cell wall synthesis is halted.

(Cefmenoxime, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result, cell wall integrity is compromised and cell lysis may follow.

(Carbenicillin Indanyl Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Following binding, monoclonal antibody RAV12 disrupts sodium channels of tumor cells expressing this glycotope, resulting in cell and organelle swelling, loss of membrane integrity, and cell death.

(Monoclonal Antibody RAV12, NCI Thesaurus)

Microfilaments physically associate with microtubules to play a structural role in cytoskeleton integrity.

(Microfilament Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

By disrupting fungal cell membrane synthesis and integrity, oxiconazole alters fungal cell membrane permeability, promotes loss of essential intracellular components and eventually inhibits fungal cell growth.

(Oxiconazole, NCI Thesaurus)

I love Willoughby, sincerely love him; and suspicion of his integrity cannot be more painful to yourself than to me.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

By disrupting fungal cell membrane synthesis and integrity, parconazole alters fungal cell membrane permeability, promotes loss of essential intracellular components and eventually inhibits fungal cell growth.

(Parconazole, NCI Thesaurus)

There was a charm, perhaps, in his sincerity, his steadiness, his integrity, which Miss Crawford might be equal to feel, though not equal to discuss with herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)