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Exterior

Exterior Meaning & Definition
Exterior Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Exterior?

[n] the outer side or surface of something
[n] the region that is outside of something
[adj] situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; "an exterior scene"; "exterior grade plywood"; "exterior paints"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Exterior: out(a) | outside | outside(a)

Related Terms | Find terms related to Exterior: airscape | alien | apparent | apparent character | appearances | border | circumference | cityscape | cloudscape | coating | cortex | cortical | covering | crust | diorama | display | envelope | epidermic | epidermis | exomorphic | exotic | exteriors | external | external appearance | externals | extraneous | extrinsic | facade | face | facet | facing | farmscape | foreign | fringe | front | gaudiness | integument | interior | landscape | lineaments | mere externals | meretriciousness | open | ostent | out | outer | outer face | outer layer | outer side | outer skin | outermost | outline | outlying | outmost | outside | outstanding | outward | outward appearance | outward show | outward-facing | pastoral | peripheral | periphery | public | public image | rind | riverscape | roundabout | scape | scene | seapiece | seascape | seeming | shell | show | skin | skyscape | snowscape | speciousness | superficial | superficiality | superficies | superstratum | surface | surface appearance | surface show | top | townscape | vain show | view | waterscape

See Also | open | open air | outdoor(a) | outdoors | out-of-door | out-of-doors | outside | part | region | surface

Exterior In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*te"ri*or\, a. [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. ext['e]rieur. See {Ex?}, and cf. {Extreme}, {Interior}.] 1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. --Shak. 2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind. Without exterior help sustained. --Milton. 3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. {Exterior angle} (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside. {Exterior side} (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. --Wilhelm. Note: See Illust. of {Ravelin}.
\Ex*te"ri*or\, n. 1. The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside. 2. Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.

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