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Adjective: internal  in'tur-n(u)l
  1. Happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
    "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party manoeuvring"
     
  2. Occurring within an institution or community
    "internal squabbling within the corporation";
    - intragroup
     
  3. Inside the country
    "the nation's internal politics";
    - home, interior, national
     
  4. Located inward
    "an internal sense of righteousness";
    - inner, interior
     
  5. Innermost or essential
    "the internal contradictions of the theory";
    - inner, intimate

See also: domestic, inland, inner, inside, interior, internecine, intramural, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward, position, spatial relation

Antonym: external

Encyclopedia: Internal