About The Word External
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What's The Definition Of External?
[n] outward features; "he enjoyed the solemn externals of religion"
[adj] exogenous [adj] happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; "the external auditory canal"; "external pressures" [adj] purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [adj] from or between other countries; "external commerce"; "international trade"; "developing nations need outside help" [adj] coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups" Synonyms | Synonyms for External: exogenous | extraneous | extrinsic | foreign | international | outer | outside | outside(a) | outward Related Terms | Find terms related to External: alien | apparent | border | circumference | cortex | cortical | covering | crust | envelope | epidermic | epidermis | exomorphic | exotic | exterior | extraneous | extraorganismal | extrinsic | facade | face | facet | foreign | fringe | front | impersonal | integument | lineaments | nonsubjective | objective | open | out | outer | outer face | outer layer | outer side | outer skin | outermost | outline | outlying | outmost | outside | outstanding | outward | outward-facing | over | perceptible | peripheral | periphery | public | rind | roundabout | seeming | shell | skin | superficial | superficies | superstratum | surface | top | visible See Also | characteristic | feature External In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*ter"nal\, a. [L. externus, fr. exter, exterus, on
the outside, outward. See {Exterior}.]
1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body;
being without; acting from without; -- opposed to
internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.
Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms
imaginations, aery shapes. --Milton.
2. Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate
from the perceiving mind.
3. Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as
distinguished from mental or moral.
Her virtues graced with external gifts. --Shak.
4. Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying;
superficial.
The external circumstances are greatly different.
--Trench.
5. Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations;
as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of
a state or kingdom.
6. (Anat.) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
{External angles}. (Geom.) See under {Angle}.
\Ex*ter"nal\, n. Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural. Adam was then no less glorious in his externals --South. God in externals could not place content. --Pope. |
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