Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

whole number
     n : any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
         [syn: integer]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Whole \Whole\, a. [OE. hole, hol, hal, hool, AS.
h[=a]l well,
   sound, healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h?l, D. heel, G. heil,
   Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well,
   sound, OIr. c?l augury. Cf. Hale, Hail to greet, Heal
   to cure, Health, Holy.]
   1. Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all
      the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as,
      the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army;
      the whole nation. ``On their whole host I flew unarmed.''
      --Milton.

            The whole race of mankind.            --Shak.

   2. Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken
      or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole
      orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.

            My life is yet whole in me.           --2 Sam. i. 9.

   3. Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness;
      healthy; sound; well.

            [She] findeth there her friends hole and sound.
                                                  --Chaucer.

            They that be whole need not a physician. --Matt. ix.
                                                  12.

            When Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole.
                                                  --Tennyson.

   Whole blood. (Law of Descent) See under Blood, n., 2.

   Whole note (Mus.), the note which represents a
note of
      longest duration in common use; a semibreve.

   Whole number (Math.), a number which is not a fraction or
      mixed number; an integer.

   Whole snipe (Zo["o]l.), the common snipe, as
distinguished
      from the smaller jacksnipe. [Prov. Eng.]

   Syn: All; total; complete; entire; integral; undivided;
        uninjured; unimpaired; unbroken; healthy.

   Usage: Whole, Total, Entire, Complete. When we use
          the word whole, we refer to a thing as made up of
          parts, none of which are wanting; as, a whole week; a
          whole year; the whole creation. When we use the word
          total, we have reference to all as taken together, and
          forming a single totality; as, the total amount; the
          total income. When we speak of a thing as entire, we
          have no reference to parts at all, but regard the
          thing as an integer, i. e., continuous or unbroken;
          as, an entire year; entire prosperity. When we speak
          of a thing as complete, there is reference to some
          progress which results in a filling out to some end or
          object, or a perfected state with no deficiency; as,
          complete success; a complete victory.

                All the whole army stood agazed on him. --Shak.

                One entire and perfect chrysolite. --Shak.

                Lest total darkness should by night regain Her
                old possession, and extinguish life. --Milton.

                So absolute she seems, And in herself complete.
                                                  --Milton.

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

integer
     n : any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
         [syn: whole number]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Integer \In"te*ger\, n. [L. integer untouched, whole,
entire.
   See Entire.]
   A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a
   fraction or a mixed number.

   Complex integer (Theory of Numbers), an
expression of the
      form a + b[root]-1, where a and b are real integers.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)

integer

   <mathematics> (Or "whole number") One of the finite numbers in
   the infinite set

   	..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...

   An inductive definition of an
integer is a number which is
   either zero or an integer plus or minus one.  An integer is a
   number with no fractional part.  If written in as a
   fixed-point number, the part after the
decimal (or other
   base) point will be zero.

   A natural number is a non-negative
integer.

   (1995-03-25)