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Meaning of 'internal' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Internal [ a.]
- Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.
- Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.
- Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war.
- Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.
- Intrinsic; inherent; real.
- Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.

Meaning of 'internal' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . internal [ a]
Meaning (1):
- happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
Example in sentence:
  • internal mechanism of a toy;
  • internal organs;
  • internal party maneuvering
2 . internal [ s]
Meaning (2):
- located inward
Example in sentence:
  • an internal sense of rightousness;
  • Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle;
  • she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it
Meaning (3):
- occurring within an institution or community
Example in sentence:
  • intragroup squabbling within the corporation
Meaning (4):
- inside the country
Example in sentence:
  • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior;
  • the nation's internal politics
Meaning (5):
- innermost or essential
Example in sentence:
  • the inner logic of Cubism;
  • the internal contradictions of the theory;
  • the intimate structure of matter