entire

Entire is an adjective in English meaning “with all parts included; complete or whole.” It is used to emphasize totality, as in phrases like the entire population or the entire process. The word comes from Middle English via Old French entier, ultimately from Latin integer meaning “whole.” The adverb form entirely is related and used to modify verbs or adjectives.

In general usage, entire contrasts with partial or incomplete. It can apply to objects, quantities, periods, or groups, and is common in formal or careful speech. People also use it to underline that nothing is left out, as in “the entire report” or “the entire country.” The word is often followed by a noun and precedes indefinite determiners such as the entire sum or the entire year.

In mathematics, entire has a specialized meaning: an entire function is a complex function that is holomorphic on the entire complex plane. Equivalently, such a function has a convergent power series expansion about every point, with infinite radius of convergence. Entire functions include polynomials, the exponential function e^z, sine and cosine, and many others. They are analytic everywhere in the complex plane, though they can grow without bound. Foundational results such as Liouville’s theorem show that a bounded entire function must be constant, illustrating how global properties on the complex plane constrain behavior.

Overall, entire conveys completeness in ordinary language and designates a global, all-encompassing property in complex analysis, distinguishing it from partial or local references.