internal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface

   internal organs

2. 2
   adj

   Of or situated on the inside.

   We saw the internal compartments of the machine.

3. 3
   adj

   Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.

   internal feelings

4. 4
   adj

   located inward

5. 5
   adj

   inside the country

6. 6
   adj

   occurring within an institution or community

7. 7
   adj

   innermost or essential

8. 8
   adj

   Of the inner nature of a thing.

Etymology

From Middle English internall, internalle, borrowing from New Latin internālis (“of or pertaining to the inner part”), from internus (“inward, internal”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, intern + -al.