adjective
- Happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface.
- usage: "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"
- Occurring within an institution or community.
- usage: "intragroup squabbling within the corporation"
- synonyms: intragroup
- Inside the country.
- usage: "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"
- 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.
- Innermost or essential.
- usage: "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
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