Internal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ter=nal

CIDE DICTIONARY

Internal, a. [L. internus; akin to interior. See Interior.].

•  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]
•  Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.  [1913 Webster]
•  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]
•  Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.  [1913 Webster]

  "With our Savior, internal purity is everything."  [1913 Webster]
•  Intrinsic; inherent; real.  [1913 Webster]

  "The internal rectitude of our actions in the sight of God."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Internal, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or situated in the inside or invisible part.
2 relating or applied to the inside of the body (internal injuries).
3 of a nation's domestic affairs.
4 (of a student) attending a university etc. as well as taking its examinations.
5 used or applying within an organization.
6 a of the inner nature of a thing; intrinsic. b of the mind or soul.
--n. (in pl.) intrinsic qualities.

Idiom

internal-combustion engine an engine with its motive power generated by the explosion of gases or vapour with air in a cylinder. internal energy the energy in a system arising from the relative positions and interactions of its parts. internal evidence evidence derived from the contents of the thing discussed. internal exile see EXILE n. 1. internal rhyme a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

Derivative

internality n. internalize v.tr. (also -ise). internalization n. internally adv.

Etymology

mod.L internalis (as INTERN)

THESAURUS

Internal

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Internal

Intrinsicality

N intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics, derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed, intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly, character is higher than intellect, come give us a taste of your quality, magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, vital spark of heavenly flame.

Interiority

N interiority, inside, interior, interspace, subsoil, substratum, intrados, contents, substance, pith, marrow, backbone, heart, bosom, breast, abdomen, vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap, penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses, cave, interior, internal, inner, inside, inward, intraregarding, inmost, innermost, deep seated, gut, intestine, intestinal, inland, subcutaneous, abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic, interstitial, inwrought, inclosed, home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular, endemic, internally, inwards, within, in, inly, here in, there in, where in, ab intra, withinside, in doors, within doors, at home, in the bosom of one's family.