About The Word Exterior
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Exterior
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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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