intrinsic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts

   intrinsic muscles

2. 2
   adj

   belonging to a thing by its very nature

   form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing- John Dewey

3. 3
   adj

   Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.

   the intrinsic value of gold or silver

4. 4
   adj

   Built-in.

   In addition to the Fortran operators that are intrinsic (built in), there may be user-defined operators in expressions.

5. 5
   noun

   A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.

   SIMD intrinics

6. 6
   noun

   An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.

   You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.

7. 7
   adj

   Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.

Etymology

From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).