internal
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (5)
- happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface“internal organs”“internal mechanism of a toy”“internal party maneuvering”
- occurring within an institution or community“intragroup squabbling within the corporation”Synonyms: intragroup
- inside the country“the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior”“the nation's internal politics”Synonyms: home(a)interior(a)national
- 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.”Synonyms: innerinterior
- innermost or essential“the inner logic of Cubism”“the internal contradictions of the theory”“the intimate structure of matter”Synonyms: innerintimate
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth. [1913 Webster]
2.Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
4.Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual. [1913 Webster]
With our Savior, internal purity is everything.— Paley.[1913 Webster]
5.Intrinsic; inherent; real. [R.] [1913 Webster]
The internal rectitude of our actions in the sight of God.— Rogers.[1913 Webster]
6.(Anat.) Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] Internal-combustion