From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Internal \In*tern"al\, adjective [L. internus; akin to interior. See {Interior}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" [ant: {external}]
2: occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation" [syn: {intragroup}]
3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: {home(a)}, {interior(a)}, {national}]
4: located inward; "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; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: {inner}, {interior}]
5: innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: {inner}, {intimate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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