Thesaurus: internal

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1. a. Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.
2. a. Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.
3. a. 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. a. Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.
5. a. Intrinsic; inherent; real.
6. a. Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.
7. adj. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
8. adj. occurring within an institution or community
9. adj. inside the country
10. adj. located inward
11. adj. innermost or essential
12. 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.) 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.