internal meaning and definition

INTERNAL adjective

Definition of internal (adjective)

1. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
   • "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"
   • antonym: external
2. occurring within an institution or community
   • "intragroup squabbling within the corporation"
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: home, interior, 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.
   • synonyms: inner, interior
5. innermost or essential
   • "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
   • synonyms: inner, intimate