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First thing you should know indefinite integrals and anti-derivatives are almost the same thing and are often interchanged in colloquial speech. Second thing you should know this is basically true!
The antiderivative of a function is a function whose derivative is . An integral is either definite or indefinite. A definite integral is a number the result when bounds are inserted into the indefinite integral. An indefinite integral is simply an antiderivative, but we often say, for example, if :
An antiderivative of is .
vs.
The indefinite integral of is , for an arbitrary constant .
As you can see, they are identical in concept, except the indefinite integral often times mentions the full family when an antiderivative does not have to.