'Internal' definitions:

Definition of 'internal'

From: WordNet
adjective
Happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" [ant: external]
adjective
Occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation" [syn: internal, intragroup]
adjective
Inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national]
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. [syn: inner, interior, internal]
adjective
Innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: inner, internal, intimate]

Definition of 'Internal'

From: GCIDE
  • Internal \In*tern"al\, a. [L. internus; akin to interior. See Interior.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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

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