English dictionary
internal
adjectivePronunciation
ɪnˈtɜː.nəl
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
adjective
- located inward
adjective
- inside the country
adjective
- occurring within an institution or community
adjective
- innermost or essential
Example sentences
internal organs
internal mechanism of a toy
internal party maneuvering
{'source': 'Leonard Bernstein', 'text': "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"}
{'source': 'David Denby', 'text': 'she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it'}
{'source': 'A.R.Gurney,Jr.', 'text': 'an internal sense of rightousness'}
the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
the nation's internal politics
intragroup squabbling within the corporation
the inner logic of Cubism
the internal contradictions of the theory
the intimate structure of matter