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Definitions for: Internal
[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"
Webster (1913) 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.
Synonyms: domestic, home(a), in, inner, interior, interior(a), internecine, intimate, intragroup, intramural, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward, national
Antonyms: external
See Also: inside
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