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Internal Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Internal: domestic \| home(a) \| in \| inner \| interior \| interior(a) \| internecine \| intimate \| intragroup \| intramural \| intrinsic \| intrinsical \| inward \| national Related Terms \| Find terms related to Internal: bosom \| center \| central \| cerebral \| conceptive \| conceptual \| core \| deep \| deepest recesses \| deep-seated \| endopsychic \| esoteric \| gut \| heart \| heart of hearts \| home \| immanent \| implanted \| implicit \| inalienable \| indoor \| indwelling \| infixed \| ingrained \| inherent \| inland \| inmost \| inner \| inner landscape \| inner life \| inner man \| inner nature \| inner recess \| inner self \| innermost \| inside \| intellectual \| intelligent \| interior \| interior man \| intern \| intestine \| intimate \| intrados \| intrinsic \| inward \| inwrought \| irreducible \| mental \| municipal \| national \| native \| noetic \| noological \| penetralia \| phrenic \| private \| psychic \| psychologic \| rational \| reasoning \| recesses \| resident \| secret \| secret place \| secret places \| soul \| spiritual \| subjective \| thinking \| unalienable \| unchallengeable \| unquestionable \| visceral \| vital center \| vitals See Also \| inside Internal In Webster's Dictionary \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.

Internal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

See Also | inside

Internal In Webster's Dictionary

\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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