external
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɝ.nəl/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɝ.nəl/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ekˈstɜː.nəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: more external
form: most external
form: externall
Etymology: From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).
Senses: examples: text: This building has some external pipework.
text: Her virtues graced with external gifts.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: Of all external things, […] / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Outside of something; on the exterior.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside of something; on the exterior.
Situated near or toward the surface of the body.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Outside of something; on the exterior.
Relating to or denoting a medicine or similar substance for use on the outside of the body.
glosses: Capable of being perceived outwardly.
Having merely the outward appearance of something.
synonyms: superficial
examples: text: The external circumstances are greatly different.
ref: 1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord:
glosses: Capable of being perceived outwardly.
Not intrinsic or essential.
synonyms: word: accidental
word: accompanying
word: accidental
word: adscititious
word: external
word: extraneous
word: extrinsic
examples: text: external authority, external force
glosses: Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered.
examples: text: external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom
synonyms: foreign
glosses: Relating to or connected with foreign nations or institutions.
examples: text: external reality
glosses: Having existence independent of the mind.
examples: text: external degrees
topics: education
glosses: For or concerning students registered with and taking the examinations of a university but not resident there.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: peripheral
glosses: Not contained in the main computer.
raw_tags: of a hardware
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Using a disk or tape drive rather than the main memory.
raw_tags: of storage
Derived terms: word: anteroexternal
word: dorsoexternal
word: external acoustic meatus
word: external auditory canal
word: external condom
word: external genitalia
word: external hemorrhoid
word: externalism
word: externalist
word: externalistic
word: externality
word: externalization
word: externalize
word: externalise
word: externally
word: externalness
word: external urethral orifice
word: extimate
word: nonexternal
word: posteroexternal
word: semiexternal
sense: Expressions
word: external auditory meatus
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word: external carotid artery
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word: external cause
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word: external conflict
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word: external coupling
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word: external ear
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word: external fertilization
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word: external iliac artery
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word: external link
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word: external maxillary artery
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word: external oblique
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word: external oblique muscle
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word: external risk
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word: external sandhi
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word: external stimulus
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word: external world