INTERNAL

internal

(adjective) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; “internal organs”; “internal mechanism of a toy”; “internal party maneuvering”

inner, interior, internal

(adjective) 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.

interior, home(a), internal, national

(adjective) inside the country; “the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior”; “the nation’s internal politics”

internal, intragroup

(adjective) occurring within an institution or community; “intragroup squabbling within the corporation”

inner, internal, intimate

(adjective) innermost or essential; “the inner logic of Cubism”; “the internal contradictions of the theory”; “the intimate structure of matter”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

internal (comparative more internal, superlative most internal)

inside of something

within the body

concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.

concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation

Synonyms

• inner

• inly

• interior

• intern, interne

Antonyms

• external

• exterior

Source: Wiktionary

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In*tern"al, a. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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