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| 1. | [ adjective ] happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface | |
| Examples: | "internal organs" "internal mechanism of a toy" "internal party maneuvering" |
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| Related terms: | external in interior internecine intrinsic inside inner inside position | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] located inward | |
| Synonyms: | inner interior | |
| Examples: | "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 |
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| Related terms: | inward | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] inside the country | |
| Synonyms: | national interior home | |
| Examples: | "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior" "the nation's internal politics" |
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| Related terms: | domestic | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] occurring within an institution or community | |
| Synonyms: | intragroup | |
| Examples: | "intragroup squabbling within the corporation" |
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| Related terms: | intramural | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] innermost or essential | |
| Synonyms: | inner intimate | |
| Examples: | "the inner logic of Cubism" "the internal contradictions of the theory" "the intimate structure of matter" |
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| Related terms: | intrinsic | |
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