Dictionary Definition
internal adj
1 happening or arising or located within some
limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal
mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" [ant: external]
2 occurring within an institution or community;
"intragroup squabbling within the corporation" [syn: intragroup]
3 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),
national]
4 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]
5 innermost or essential; "the inner logic of
Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate
structure of matter" [syn: inner, intimate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)nəl
Adjective
- inside of something
- We saw the internal compartments
- within the body
- Her bleeding was internal
- concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation
- The nation suffered from internal conflicts
- concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other
organisation
- An internal investigation was conducted
Translations
within the body
concerned with the non-public affairs of a
company or other organisation
Translations to be checked
- ttbc German: intern, innerlich, inländisch
- ttbc Hebrew: פנימי
- ttbc Interlingua: interne
- ttbc Novial: interni
- ttbc Spanish: interno, -a
- ttbc Swedish: intern
- ttbc Telugu: అంతర్గత (amtargata)
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Extensive Definition
Internal may refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
bosom,
center, central, cerebral, conceptive, conceptual, core, deep, deep-seated, deepest
recesses, 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