Meaning of INTERNAL
| Pronunciation: | | in'turnl
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- [adj] happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"
- [adj] located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
- [adj] inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"
- [adj] occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation"
- [adj] innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
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INTERNAL is a 8 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | domestic, home(a), in, inner, interior, interior(a), internecine, intimate, intragroup, intramural, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward, national |
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| | Antonyms: | | external | | |
| | See Also: | | inside | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*tern"al\, a. [L. internus; akin to interior. See
{Interior}.]
1. Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface;
inclosed; -- opposed to {external}; as, the internal parts
of a body, or of the earth.
2. Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent;
as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the
Scriptures.
3. Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially,
(said of a country) domestic, as opposed to {foreign}; as,
internal trade; internal troubles or war.
4. Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.
With our Savior, internal purity is everything.
--Paley.
5. Intrinsic; inherent; real. [R.]
The internal rectitude of our actions in the sight
of God. --Rogers.
6. (Anat.) Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.
{Internal angle} (Geom.), an interior angle. See under
{Interior}.
{Internal gear} (Mach.), a gear in which the teeth project
inward from the rim instead of outward.
Syn: Inner; interior; inward; inland; inside.
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