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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exterior \Ex*te"ri*or\, noun
1. The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
2. Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exterior \Ex*te"ri*or\, adjective [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. ext['e]rieur. See {Ex-}, and cf. {Extreme}, {Interior}.]
1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to {interior}; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. --Shak.
2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.
Without exterior help sustained. --Milton.
3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.
{Exterior angle} (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside.
{Exterior side} (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. --Wilhelm.
Note: See Illust. of {Ravelin}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exterior
adjective: situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; "an exterior scene"; "exterior grade plywood"; "exterior paints" [ant: {interior}]
noun
1: the region that is outside of something [syn: {outside}] [ant: {inside}]
2: the outer side or surface of something [syn: {outside}] [ant: {inside}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "exterior": airscape, alien, apparent, apparent character, appearances, border, circumference, cityscape, cloudscape, coating, cortex, cortical, covering, crust, diorama, display, envelope, epidermic, epidermis, exomorphic, exotic, exteriors, external, external appearance, externals, extraneous, extrinsic, facade, face, facet, facing, farmscape, foreign, fringe, front, gaudiness, integument, interior, landscape, lineaments, mere externals, meretriciousness, open, ostent, out, outer, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outermost, outline, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward appearance, outward show, outward-facing, pastoral, peripheral, periphery, public, public image, rind, riverscape, roundabout, scape, scene, seapiece, seascape, seeming, shell, show, skin, skyscape, snowscape, speciousness, superficial, superficiality, superficies, superstratum, surface, surface appearance, surface show, top, townscape, vain show, view, waterscape
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